The Seed Is Mine

	First South African paperback edition, 1996
Author	Charles van Onselen
Publisher	David Philip
Publication date	1996
Awards	Alan Paton Award for Nonfiction (1997); Herskovits Prize (1997);
ISBN	080909603X

The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper 1894-1985 is a microhistorical study by Charles van Onselen. It is a profound social history of an African peasant sharecropper and his family in a racially divided South Africa. Van Onselen paints a stark picture of the relationship between landowner and farmer and its development in an increasingly racist society.

Van Onselen details the developing familial structures in South Africa, affected by the South African War, finding of diamonds and Apartheid.

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