The Seed Is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985
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A bold and innovative social history, "The Seed is Mine" concerns the disenfranchised blacks who did so much to shape the destiny of South Africa. After years of interviews with Kas Maine and his neighbors, employers, friends, and family — a rare triumph of collaborative courage and dedication — Charles van Onselen has re-created the entire 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 them apart.
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