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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

F. Reginald Statham

Blacks, Boers, and British. A Three-Cornered Problem (1881)

Published: London, 1881

Edition: First Edition

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'When this volume was published, the author had only been three years in South Africa, but he gives some interesting information respecting the sub-continent, its wars, politics, and history, together with some observations on the Zulu War and the First Annexation of the Transvaal. Mr. Statham was convinced that the Boers were, and always had been, an ill-used and misrepresented race, but his reproaches, in this work, are mainly reserved for the Colonial Office - "The Curse of South Africa," as he styles it. He asserts that "for sixty-five years, since its final cession to England, South Africa has been governed in total darkness, and never once has even an attempt been made reasonably to enlighten Englishmen as to the nature of the questions to be solved, or the real reasons of the wars which they have had to pay for." He calls for light, peace, patience, to give the country a chance "of placing the three-cornered problem it presents in a fair way of solution." - Mendelssohn Vol. II, page 423

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