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

by Charles van Onselen

Book Overview

This seminal book reveals how black labor 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 labor and slavery, then sold off en masse as contracted laborers, who paid the highest price for South African gold. An iniquitous intercolonial agreement for the exploitation of ultra-cheap black labor...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197568653
• ISBN13: 9780197568651
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"