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Seeds of Chaos. As the days passed, the city wondered what to think. To the Communist Daily Worker, the strike was a "heroic" demonstration. To the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram & the Sun, the students were sowing the seeds of "chaos." Superintendent of Schools William Jansen said that the strikers could not be "condemned too severely." The New York Post claimed that the officials were taking it all too seriously. Mayor O'Dwyer was plainly exasperated. He threatened to cancel the $7,000,000 appropriation, demanded that the Board of Education start a complete investigation...
When hot-blooded, race-conscious Koos Jansen saw the African slaves coming back from a secret meeting on the mountainside, he boiled with the knowledge that the worst had happened: the news of their emancipation by the British had finally seeped through from Cape Town...
...news was already a year old, but to the Jansen brothers and their slaves, isolated on a mountain-rimmed farm in the wilds of Cape Colony, it was still red-hot. After the embittered slaves had declared themselves free, there was only one course for the outnumbered Jansens to take; round up their cattle, hitch up their oxen, and join the great trek of dispossessed Boers to the savage, wild north. There, though they might be plagued by Matabele warriors, they would be free of British humanitarianism and British rule...
Bloody Pathway. Kasper Jansen, a kindlier, more contemplative man than his fiery younger brother Koos, laughed a "bitterly defiant laugh" as he left the valley farm he loved. His pregnant wife Anna was more apprehensive. Anna detested violence. Like some of the other Boers with whom the Jansens joined forces in the drive into the north country, she wanted her children to grow up in a peaceful world stripped of racial hatred. But when the Boers reached the Matabele kingdom the natives resisted, and the Boers carved a bloody pathway with their rifles. Anna, giving birth just before the battle...