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Where did Nelson Mandela's fellow prisoners hide the manuscript of his autobiography after he finished writing it in prison?
Answer
Buried in a garden
To protect the secretly written manuscript from discovery, it was buried in a garden on Robben Island before eventually being smuggled out.
💡 Did you know?
Nelson Mandela wrote chapters of his autobiography 'Long Walk to Freedom' on smuggled paper during 27 years in prison, then hid the manuscript in a garden.
Other options people guess
- Sealed inside a water pipe
- Stitched into a mattress lining
- Hidden behind a library shelf
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- autobiography
- prison-literature
- robben-island
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