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moseslh's review
5.0
House of Bondage is an incredible, moving, and courageous exposé of apartheid South Africa by a black South African photographer in 1967. Cole risked everything to create this book and had to go into exile in the United States in order to publish it. In it, he includes text and photographs about a wide variety of black South Africans and their experiences in schools, on trains, at hospitals, on the streets, at church, as servants, as miners, as the rare members of the middle class, and more. It is a great source for understanding apartheid and the ways in which it played out in the lives of everyday people, and Cole's writing on the topic, based on interviews and his own personal experience, is quite powerful. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn about life under apartheid.
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