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The Night Trains - Moving Mozambican Miners to and from the Witwatersrand Mines, 1902-1955 (Paperback)
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The Night Trains - Moving Mozambican Miners to and from the Witwatersrand Mines, 1902-1955 (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
Lourenco 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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