Talk:Great Trek

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Should the Voortrek really be listed on this page? I suggest that it be moved to Great Trek, presently a redirect. --Smack 16:22, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Agreed. The Voortrekkers page is a more detailed description of the Trek than this one in any case - I think that it should be used as the base for an article located at Voortrek (the word for the trek in the language of its participants - and I just like the word, personally), a page I just created as a redirect to "Trek", with Great Trek redirecting to that. Anybody have any opinions on that? --Oystertoadfish 2:31, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cause of the Great Trek

The principal causes of the Great Trek are not quite as listed in the article. In 1835 British rule had been imposed "recently", says the article. Not true. If that was the cause the trek would have been a generation earlier. No the main cause was the abolition of slavery in 1834! Comment invited. Paul Beardsell 12:13, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

The main cause of the trek was not the abolition of slavery as the Boers did not own any slaves, and did not endorse slavery. The main Reason was because of the British. The British may of came a generation earlier, thats why so many people moved away from the cape but the British was extending their rule and the Boers moved further and further away from the cape until they decided to go on a mass migration to the east to fully escape British rule and gain their own rule to have the freedom and independence that so many of their ancestors had fled their homelands for. The Boer and Afrikaners are not the same cultures, the Afrikaners were Dutch with a Dutch culture, which used slaves, while the Boers did not use slaves at all, they had laborers but they were paid and most of these laborers decided to go on the Great Trek with the Voortrekkers.

Sources Am I the only person who finds the "Further Reading" link ridiculously biased?

No. SalJyDieBoereKomLei 20:27, 5 May 2007 (UTC)