Promise and Despair: The First Struggle for a Non-Racial South Africa

by Martin Plaut (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2017

  $96.87

  The struggle for freedom in South Africa goes back a long way. In 1909, a remarkable interracial delegation of South Africans traveled to London to lobby for a non-racialized constitution and franchise for all. Among their allies was Mahatma Gandhi, who later encapsulated lessons from the experience in his most important book, Hind Swaraj.