Photograph of "A Native School" in Durban, South Africa 1903
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[The South African Republic or the Transvaal]. Real Photo Postcard captioned “A Native School”. 1903, Durban 3.5” x 5.5” inches. Image shows a class held outdoors: a black teacher at a lecturn holding a book, with a single chair behind him, and a group of approximately 30 students seated on chairs or on a rug in front of him. All the students are black. They sit beneath a copse of trees, with grasses behind them. The students are all ages, ranging from young children to adults. The back is addressed in pen to a mademoiselle Mercedes de Guerrico in Buenos Ares and post marked Aug. 3, 1903 from Durban. Education for non-whites was piecemeal in the Transvaal. Political and linguistic problems impeded the development of public education. In 1904, the year after this photo is postmarked, the Transvaal’s first Inspector of Native Education stated that the object of black schooling was to ‘Teach the Native to work’. Despite this, there were several serious efforts to establish free schools in the end of the 19th century and some exemplary schools followed rather liberal social and curricular policies. Corners slightly warn. Some foxing. Overall in good condition.Item #17495
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