The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985 Book

History forgets the small and powerless. It is to South African historian and journalist Charles Van Onselen's credit that he has remembered one of them in a sprawling biography: an illiterate black South African tenant farmer who lived out his days under apartheid. The existence of Kas Maine (1894-1985) had hitherto been formally acknowledged only in official state records, and then only once, for having been arrested in 1931 for not having a license for his pet dog. From that sketchy base Van Onselen creates a powerful life study of a man who lived as best as he could under the most trying circumstances. But he does much more than that: he reinforces Maine's story with a long and fluent account of South African history in the last century.Read More

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  • Product Description

    Based on interviews with Kas Maine, this text recreates the life of a man who struggled to maintain his family in a world dedicated to enriching whites and impoverishing blacks, while South Africa was tearing both apart. North America: Farrar, Straus & Giroux; South Africa: Jonathan Ball

  • 085255740X
  • 9780852557402
  • Charles van Onselen
  • 1 January 1997
  • James Currey
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 668
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