The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper -- Charles Van Onselen

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David Philip, 1996, Paperback - Biography - 649 pp.

The Seed Is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985 - Charles van Onselen

Winner of the Sunday Times (South Africa) Alan Paton Award for Nonfiction

Winner of the Herskovitz Award from the African Studies Association.

'The seed is mine. The ploughshares are mine. The span of oxen is mine. Everything is mine. Only the land is their's.'--Kas Maine

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.

"If ever one wondered whether the life of a single man could illuminate a century, [this] brilliant biography . . . proves the point."—Carmel Schrire, The Boston Globe

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