Natalie Hammond was living in Johannesburg when the Jameson Raid of 1895 to 1896 collapsed and her husband, the American mining engineer John Hays Hammond, was arrested by the Boer government as a leader of the reform movement. Her account, written in 1897, tells of the household before the crisis, the arrests, the trial and her long struggle to save him.
A vivid personal view of the crisis that led toward the Boer War, written by a woman who had to fight for her husband’s life. Download the free EPUB.