An Illustrated History of Black South Africans in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902: A forgotten history

Published by The War Museum of the Boer Republics, Bloemfontein, 2012, hardcover, 398 pages, 24.8 cms x 30.8 cms x 3.9 cms, condition: new..

Consisting of 700 photographs and other illustrations, some in colour, this is the first photographic record of the significant black involvement in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. Approximately 20 pages of text set the photographs in historical context. The majority of the photographs and illustrations included have never before appeared in print and from the War Museums collection. The full range of black involvement is featured, including the life in the concentration camps, blockhouse guards, prisoners of war, black scouts serving with the British and agterryers with the Boer forces.

"This book is a worthy successor to Stowell Kessler's book The black concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902, as it illustrates the total experience of black South Africans in all the facets of the war. This is the first publication of its kind and no doubt will contribute to a better understanding of this devastating war which contributed to the South African political landscape of today. This publication endeavours to restore balance to the historiographical bias, by depicting the forgotten history of the experience of black people in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902." - Tokkie Pretorius (Director of the War Museum of the Boer Republics).