called Port Elizabeth, or in other colonial villages. Others took to trading
with the African farming communities beyond the frontier-a
practice that
became legal in 1828. Some who stayed on the land eventually prospered
by increasing the size of their holdings and producing wool for the market
with merino sheep.so What the 1820
Settlers did not realize was that the
British government had placed them on land claimed by Africans-Xhosa
communities who had been the victims of white aggression in the clear-
ances of 1811-12
and 1817-19.
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