HIS241H5 Lecture : nov15
Document Summary
Climiate was easy in cape town dutch farmers were called boer"s. They had secure and prosperous life but they had been there since 1600"s, their religion was protestants extremely fundamentalist took bible literally. Justification of using native ppl as forced labour in bible they took it literally labour on farms werenative ppl. Britain didn"t mind if they used the native recognized the independence of t he boers sand river convinciton 1852. As british commerce expanded and as age of imperialism expanded britain was looking for a port on the indian port . 1872 bought something which was bargain because there was diamonds. Boers built their own railway out to the indian ocean doesn"t go to britain territory .
