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After the settlement of the Cape by the Dutch East India Company, affairs rapidly went from bad to worse. A harsh rule, combined with slavery and forced labor, soon drove out many of the Dutch inhabitants, who worked northward and finally settled down in the Transvaal. A large French Huguenot element had come in at this time, and as a result nearly two thirds of the Boers today are of French descent...
...Dutch inhabitants, however, refused to discontinue their policy of land grabbing. More trouble with the natives ensued, and a commission was sent from England to investigate. The trouble was staved off for a time, and in 1883 Kruger even obtained some concessions from the home government. It was in 1885, when gold was discovered in the Transvaal, that serious trouble began. The Uitlanders at this time numbered 150,000; there were less than half that number of Boers. The foreign element possessed all the mining and much of the property interests, and were taxed most unreasonably by the officials...
...History of Classical Studies. V. Eighteenth Century. The English and Later Dutch Schools. Professor Morgan. Sever...
...History of Classical Studies. IV. Seventeenth Century. The Older Dutch School. Professor Morgan. Sever...
...History of Classical Studies. V. Eighteenth Century. The English and Later Dutch Schools. Professor Morgan. Sever...