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Great Trek

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the great emigration of Boers from Cape Colony which began in 1836, and resulted in the founding of the South African Republic and Orange Free State.

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The two men travel through the Negev desert, into Egypt -- site of the Israelites' enslavement -- and back toward Israel through the Sinai, tracing the Israelites' great trek through the desert to the Promised Land.
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As Crais demonstrates, however, used sensitively, meticulously, and even humbly, postmodern techniques can provide important, original insights and reinterpretations of such well-treated texts as "Kaffir wars," the Great Trek, or the Xhosa cattle-killing of the 1850s.
White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Pre-Industrial South Africa: ... by Cell, John W. / Journal of Social History
This fall, more than 15 million college freshmen will make the great trek toward membership in the Class of 2009(1).
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