Not Particularly Rare
Rosa Lyster: Diamond Fields, 26 May 2022
Empire of Diamonds: Victorian Gems in Imperial Settings
by Adrienne Munich.
Virginia, 296 pp., £27.50, May 2020,978 0 8139 4400 5 Show More
by Adrienne Munich.
Virginia, 296 pp., £27.50, May 2020,
Blood, Sweat and Earth: The Struggle for Control over the World’s Diamonds
by Tijl Vanneste.
Reaktion, 432 pp., £25, October 2021,978 1 78914 435 2 Show More
by Tijl Vanneste.
Reaktion, 432 pp., £25, October 2021,
“... not enough to do. White men get paid here for walking around.There are the accounts, detailed by Tijl Vanneste in Blood, Sweat and Earth, of the illicit trade on the diamond fields: white-owned canteens masquerading as charitable enterprises, where meals were advertised as free but it was expected that the Black clientele would leave a diamond in the ... ”
