The 1820 Settlers by Bryer, Lynne;Hunt, Keith S.
The 1820 Settlers by Bryer, Lynne;Hunt, Keith S.
Softcover: ISBN 9781868063383
Publisher: Cape Town: Don Nelson, 2013 Third Edition.
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"In 1819 some 4000 British emigrants set sail for a district called Albany in the remote Cape Colony at the southern tip of Africa. The settlers were a mere handful among the thousands of emigrants leaving Britain for America and Australasia. But at the Cape their impact was both immediate and far-reaching. Overnight they altered the balance of population in Southern Africa and before long they began to agitate for the rights they were accustomed to as Britons. They had come expecting a paradise of milk and honey. The reality was completely different, yet overwhelmingly they rose to the challenge and created a new life for themselves in an underdeveloped colony. They were to play a vital role in frontier affairs, and their concentrated presence in Albany led to a rapid anglicization of the Eastern Cape that persists still. Their criticism of an outdated colonial system led to judicial and constitutional reform. In the end, they moved away - so sheep country in the Karoo, to the new colony of Natal, to the Boer republics and the diamond mines and goldfields of a rapidly changing Southern Africa. This is their story - a social history illustrated both by quotations from settler writings and by a wealth of photographs (many in colour) of the paintings, places and objects that record the experience of the 1820 settlers in South Africa.".
