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Auction #135 begins on 12 Nov 2026

Sampson (Victor)

THE RELATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CIVILIZED COMMUNITIES OF SOUTH AFRICA TO THE NATIVE RACES (1878)

"Chancellor's Prize Essay of the University of the Cape of Good Hope, 1877"

Published: Saul Solomon & Co., Cape Town, 1878

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $80

Approximately:

Estimate: $100

Bidding opens: 12 Nov 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 19 Nov 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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Publisher's printed wraps.

70pp.

Wraps present but detached. Internally clean.

'The future Attorney-General of the Cape Colony (Dr. Jameson's Ministry) showed in this essay that even as a youth he had given considerable thought to the problems of native policy in South Africa. Mr. Sampson asserts that "the vast hordes of South Africa must be a source of either strength or weakness to her . . . if they grow worse than they were . . . then it would have been better had they been exterminated at once. They must either become faithful workers, or they must degenerate into a miserable and disastrous cumber; and it lies in the power of the white which it shall be."' - Mendelssohn Vol.II, pages 265-66

  • Binding Condition: Fair
  • Overall Condition: Fair to Good
  • Size: 8vo.


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