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Author Van Onselen, Charles.

Title The seed is mine : the life of Kas Maine, a South African sharecropper, 1894-1985 / Charles Van Onselen
Edition First edition
Published New York : Hill and Wang, 1996

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Description xvi, 649 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary "Traces the psycholosocial development of one black sharecropping family over a one-hundred-year cycle, and tells of the triumphs and the tears of a black patriarch struggling to prosper ... a black man's manual of survival in what was apartheid South Africa" --Jacket
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-562) and index
Subject Maine, Kas, 1894-1985.
Blacks -- South Africa -- Biography.
Sharecroppers -- South Africa -- Biography.
SUBJECT South Africa -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125474 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 95079980
ISBN 0809015943 (paperback)
080909603X
Other Titles Life of Kas Maine, a South African sharecropper, 1894-1985