were of Khoikhoi descent, though some were former slaves who had be-
come apprentices
in 1'834. The Afrikaner
migrants-later
known
as
voortrekkers (pioneers)-were
escaping from an alien government whose
policies they had come to detest and hoping to find some Promised Land
where they might make their own arrangements
with one another, with
their servants, and with the other inhabitants.F?
Since 1806, the world the Afrikaners had known had been transformed.
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