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The Memoirs of Paul Kruger, Four Times President of the South African Republic
Paul Kruger
Paperback. Forgotten Books 2018-11-12.
ISBN 9781396814068
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Excerpt from The Memoirs of Paul Kruger, Four Times President of the South African Republic: Told by Himself Colony. My parents were simple farmers, and I grew up at the farm like other farmers' lads, looking after the herds and lending a hand in the fields. With the exception that an old woman prophesied to my mother that her son Stephanus Johannes Paulus was destined for a superior position in life, I do not know that any one could have had the least notion that God would entrust me with a special mission. The first event of importance in my life was our departing from home, our treh. I was too young at the time to occupy myself much with the reason of the great emigration. But I know that my parents said they emigrated because the English first sold the slaves and, after they had got the money, set these slaves free again, and that the money which had been awarded in compensation was made payable in England, where it could be received either personally or through an agent. The expenses entailed by this method of payment in many cases amounted to more than the capital, so that a great many preferred to sacrifice what was. Due to them, rather than be put to so much trouble and vexa tion. But they refused to continue to live under such unjust masters. Added to this, the Kafi'irs repeatedly raided the colony and stole the Boers' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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