A Canadian girl in South Africa : a teacher's experiences in the South African War, 1899 1902

Graham, E. Maud, 1876-1949, author.

Book 2015

"As the South African War reached its grueling end in 1902, colonial interests at the highest levels of the British Empire hand-picked teachers from across the Commonwealth to teach the thousands of Afrikaner women, children, and non-combatants held in concentration camps. Highly educated, hard working, and often opinionated, E. Maud Graham joined the Canadian contingent of forty teachers. Her account reveals the complexity of relations and tensi...

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