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Topic: Great Trek
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Great Trek

Years: 1836 - 1843

The Great Trek is an eastward and north-eastward migration during the 1830s and 1840s of the segment of Afrikaners (known pejoratively as Boers or Boere (Dutch/Afrikaans for "farmers"), who descend from settlers from western mainland Europe, most notably from the Netherlands.

"Remember that the people you are following didn’t know the end of their own story. So they were going forward day by day, pushed and jostled by circumstances, doing the best they could, but walking in the dark, essentially."

—Hilary Mantel, AP interview (2009)