This book provides an in-depth analysis of the emergence of a racially divided society in pre-industrial Southern Africa.

Details the life of Sara Baartman, taken from Africa in 1810 to be exhibited in London, and whose remains were ceremoniously returned from France to democratic South Africa, and attempts to separate the woman from the symbol of racism and ...

Clifton Crais explores the relationship between colonial conquest and the making of South Africa's rural poor.