Research Catalog

Title

Native life in South Africa : before and since the European War and the Boer rebellion / by Sol. T. Plaatje.

Author

Plaatje, Sol. T. (Solomon Tshekisho), 1877-1932

Publication

London : P.S. King & Son, Ltd., Orchard House, Westminster, [after 1916]

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Details

Additional Authors

P.S. King & Son, Ltd., publisher.

Description

[2], 382 pages, [3] leaves of plates (1 folded) : portraits, map; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Indigenous peoples > South Africa
• Ethnology > South Africa
• Plaatje, Sol. T (Solomon Tshekisho), 1876-1932 > Portraits
• Indigenous peoples > South Africa > Social conditions
• South Africa > Politics and government > 1909-1948
• Blacks > South Africa > Social conditions
• South Africa > Race relations
• Land tenure > Law and legislation > South Africa
• South Africa > History > Rebellion, 1914-1915
• South Africa > Politics and government > 1836-1909
• Black author

Note

• Originally published: London: P.S. King, 1916.
• "Some opinions of the press on the first edition"--pages [1]-[2], first count, with advertisements on page [2].
• With a half-title.
• "Report of the Lands Commission, an analysis"--pages 353-382.

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

ch. A. Who is the author? -- ch. B. Prologue -- ch. 1. A retrospect -- ch. 2. The grim struggle between right and wrong -- ch. 3. The Natives Land Act -- ch. 4. One night with the fugitives -- ch. 5. Another night with the sufferers -- ch. 6. Our indebtedness to white women -- ch. 7. Persecution of coloured women in the Orange Free State -- ch. 8. At Thaba Ncho: a secretarial fiasco -- ch. 9. The fateful 13 -- ch. 10. Dr. Abdurahman, president of the A.P.O. -- ch. 11. The Land Act in Cape Colony -- ch. 12. The passing of Cape ideals -- ch. 13. Tengo-Jabavu, the pioneer native pressman -- ch. 14. The native congress and the union government -- ch. 15. The Kimberley congress -- ch. 16. The appeal for imperial protection -- ch. 17. The London press and the Natives' Land Act -- ch. 18. The P.S.A. and brotherhoods -- ch. 19. Armed natives in the South African war -- ch. 20. The South African races and the European war -- ch. 21. Coloured people's help rejected -- ch. 22. The South African Boers and the European war -- ch. 23. The Boer Rebellion -- ch. 24. Piet Grobler -- Epilogue.

Call Number

Sc 968-P (Plaatje, S. Native life in South Africa)

OCLC

• 1735567
• NYPGR10551001-B

Author

Plaatje, Sol. T. (Solomon Tshekisho), 1877-1932, author.

Title

Native life in South Africa : before and since the European War and the Boer rebellion / by Sol. T. Plaatje.

Imprint

London : P.S. King & Son, Ltd., Orchard House, Westminster, [after 1916]

Edition

Third edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc 968-P (accession no. B527005) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

P.S. King & Son, Ltd., publisher.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc 968-P (Plaatje, S. Native life in South Africa)