"The Government and Civilization of the Native Races of South Africa : being the prize essay for the Chancellor's Gold Medal, 1883."
Publisher's printed wraps.
39pp.
Binding sound. Contents clean.
Former copy of Wesleyan missionary to Namaqualand the Reverend Henry Tindall (1831-1909) with his ownership in ink on the front panel.
'In this essay the author bears testimony to the value of the technical education afforded to coloured people at Lovedale, Blytheswood, and similar institutions. He considers that the fault of the education of the natives generally is that it is confined to such small proportions of the population, which tends to the egotism of the instructed minority. He advocates a simple government for the different races, combined with isolation to a certain extent, as in the case of Basutoland. While approving the present "communal" system of land tenure, he is of opinion that the government should gradually pave the way for a system allowing of individual native landholders.' - Mendelssohn Vol.I, page 245
- Binding Condition: Very Good
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 8vo.
