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House of Bondage
Ernest Cole1966
Photography Legacy Project
South Africa
Living in her "kaya" out back, servant must be on call six days out of seven and seven nights out of seven. She lives a lonely life apart from her family. In white suburbs there are no recreation centers open to black servants
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- Title: House of Bondage
- Creator: Ernest Cole
- Date Created: 1966
- Location Created: Gauteng, Transvaal, South Africa
- Subject Keywords: Acommodation, apartheid, Black, Domestic, Domestic Worker, housing, Leisure, Live-in, Maid, Race Relations, Recreation, Servant, The Cheap Servant, Woman, Worker's Housing
- Type: photograph
- Rights: © Ernest Cole Family Trust/Magnum Photos
- External Link: The Photography Legacy Project (PLP)
- Medium: black & white print
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