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Years: 1828 - 1839
Boer families, together with large numbers of Khoikhoi and black servants, gather up their belongings and travel by ox-wagon up into the Highveld interior to the north of the eastern Cape frontier, beginning in 1836. (Travel farther east is blocked by the Xhosa.)
All told, some six thousand Boer men, women, and children, along with an equal number of blacks, participate in this movement in the late 1830s.
Fewer Boer families migrate from the western Cape, where they are more prosperous on their grain and wine farms and therefore less concerned about land shortages and frontier pressures.
The exodus from the Cape is not organized in a single movement at the time, but it will later be termed the Great Trek by nationalist historians, and its participants are called Voortrekkers (pioneers).
All told, some six thousand Boer men, women, and children, along with an equal number of blacks, participate in this movement in the late 1830s.
Fewer Boer families migrate from the western Cape, where they are more prosperous on their grain and wine farms and therefore less concerned about land shortages and frontier pressures.
The exodus from the Cape is not organized in a single movement at the time, but it will later be termed the Great Trek by nationalist historians, and its participants are called Voortrekkers (pioneers).
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- Khoikhoi
- Zulu people
- Xhosa people
- Afrikaners
- Boers
- Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
- Cape Colony, British
- Zululand
- Zulu, Kingdom of the
- Natalia Republic
- Natalia (Natal), Boer Republic of
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Years: 1828 - 1839
Groups
- Khoikhoi
- Zulu people
- Xhosa people
- Afrikaners
- Boers
- Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
- Cape Colony, British
- Zululand
- Zulu, Kingdom of the
- Natalia Republic
- Natalia (Natal), Boer Republic of
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