The Land is Ours: Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa

The Land Is Ours tells the story of South Africas first black lawyers, who operated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In an age of aggressive colonial expansion, land dispossession and forced labour, these men believed in a constitutional system that respected individual rights and freedoms, and they used the law as an instrument against injustice.

Softcover. English. Penguin. 2018. ISBN: 9781776092857. 312pp. Good condition in softcover. Book No: 2502649