DEVELOPMENT OF A DIAMOND MONOPOLY AND BLACK DISPOSSESSION
OUTCOMES
At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
1. Trace the process of how ownership of the diamond wealth changed in Kimberley and why this happened
2. Trace the process of how black people were progressively pushed aside from ownership into less powerful roles in the diamond mining industry
3. Read and compile a flow chart or time line to illustrate a process.
4. Draw conclusions from pictorial evidence.
INPUTS
You will use the information in the slide presentation on the blog as a source.The Kimberley Diamond Rush
LEARNING ACTIVITY
1. Watch the slide presentation and discuss it in class.
2. Answer the following questions in your workbook.
QUESTIONS
1. Write a short definition in your own words of the following key terms:
(a) Alluvial diamonds
(b) Dry diggings
(c) Claim
(d) Monopoly
(e) Dispossession (10)
2. List the key steps that led to black people losing the opportunity to own any part of the wealth from diamonds and set these out in a time line. (10)
3. Refer to a picture of digging at Kimberley and explain why many small diggers went out of business when they dug deeper. (5)