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By Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com Guide to 20th Century History

Nelson Mandela Gets Prison Notebooks Back

Tuesday October 5, 2004
Nearly three decades after they were confiscated from him, two notebooks that Nelson Mandela had used to write down his thoughts while imprisoned at Robben Island during the early 1970s were returned to him. A retired police officer had saved the notebooks from destruction decades before. The notebooks will be part of the new Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Commemoration.

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