Trial of Absalom

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  - Nature and Its Meaning
  - Fear
  - Race & Racism
- Topics for Study
  - The system of Apartheid: Find out what the system meant legally, as well as culturally. Find out the justifications, moral and ethical, for its existence. In what ways is it like Jim Crowism in the American South? In what ways did it differ?
  - International Politics of 1948: tensions between the United Nations' Declaration of Human Rights and installation of Apartheid in South Africa
  - Environment: population displacement
  - Moral and Social Disintegration
  - Agriculture and the Migration to Cities
  - Passes: anti-pass campaigns were organized in the mid-1940s
  - Sophiatown: along with Alexandra, Orlando, and Pimville, quickly became one of the few suburbs near Johannesburg in which people of all colors were permitted to live.

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