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The Night Trains
- Moving Mozambican Miners to and from the Witwatersrand Mines, 1902–1955
Engelsk Paperback
The Night Trains
- Moving Mozambican Miners to and from the Witwatersrand Mines, 1902–1955
Engelsk Paperback

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This seminal book reveals how black labour was exploited in twentieth-century South Africa, the human costs of which are still largely hidden from history. It was the people of southern Mozambique, bent double beneath the historical loads of forced labour and slavery, then sold off en masse as contracted labourers, who paid the highest price for South African gold. An iniquitous intercolonial agreement for the exploitation of ultra-cheap black labour was only made possible through nightly use of the steam locomotive on the transnational railway linking Johannesburg and Lourenço Marques. These night trains left deep scars in the urban and rural cultures of black communities, whether in the form of popular songs or a belief in nocturnal witches' trains that captured and conveyed zombie workers to the region's most unpopular places of employment. By tracing the journeys undertaken by black migrants, Charles van Onselen powerfully reconstructs how racial thinking, expressed logistically, reflected the evolving systems of segregation and apartheid. On the night trains, the last stop was always hell.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9781787384040
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1787384047
Udg. Dato:
5 nov 2020
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
234mm
Højde:
156mm
Forlag:
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato:
5 nov 2020
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