Mandela sent to Robben Island
1964
At the end of the Rivonia Trial, Nelson Mandela told a Pretoria courtroom he was prepared to die for the ideal of a free society. The judge sentenced him to life. On Robben Island, off Cape Town, he broke rocks in a quarry and studied law by candle. He would spend twenty-seven years in prison and walk out to become president.
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