Long ago my forefathers came across the sea. Far they came, in white ships tall as trees and on the land they built them wagons and covered them with sails of their ships. Far they travelled and spread their campfire ashes over this vast barbaric land. But now their children are tired, we want to build
Defintion of an important concept: This paragraph along with the others that discuss history, depicts the racial opression and social tension that has existed between white and black people. It shows the unequal power dynamic of the white man in control and the black man forced to perform the heavy labor under the extreme heat and weather conditions. This represents an important event in history of apartheid in South Africa in the 1900s.