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Excerpt from The South African Question: A Lecture on the Transvaal and Its System of Government, With Some of the Abuses of Power Which Have Led to the Present War in South Africa
When the British Emancipation Act came into force in Cape Colony, December 1, 1834, the Boers held nearly forty thousand slaves, and although Britain paid them fifteen mil lions of dollars for the release of their slaves, they were not content, but were still bent on the business of slave holding. Pieter Retief, their leader, stated in his manifesto that the abolition of slavery was one of the reasons why his band was leaving the colony. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
