British abolition of slavery triggered the Great Trek secessionist movement

Evidence

British settlement entailed intensifying ambiguities and ambivalence for the Dutch already living at the Cape: subsequent loss of power and self-determination, gestures of creeping equality, the arousal of insecurities, and ultimately abolition in late 1834, with its consequent effects on raising indigenous expectations and shattering boer reliance on a cheap source of farm labor supply. Combined and interactive, these factors prompted outright boer rebellion as the decade approached a mid-point. Formal abolition brought these factors to a boiling point, prompting strong selfdetermining secessionist sentiments among boers at the frontier. The result: waves of treks by groups of boer families across the border and into native land. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1420 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The Natal colonial administration and the boer landowners in the area reinforced their respective drives to marginalize blacks politically and socially while maximizing exploitation of their labor power. Somewhat haltingly, both the Cape and Natal colonial administrations nevertheless insisted on segregative legislation from as early as the 1850s, fully 30 to 40 years before the South African Republic and Orange Free State followed suit, even if British-sponsored segregation proved more ambivalent and less complete. In due course, though, segregation directed at blacks was extended to apply to Indians (in Natal) and Asians more generally, as all registrations of non-Europeanness came to be identified in racial fabrication to some degree as naturally or historically inferior on one index or another. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1471 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: British abolition of slavery directly triggered the Great Trek — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1420; The Great Trek escaped British law and seeded Anglo-Boer racialism — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2329; British colonies enforced racial segregation decades before the boer republics did — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1471

Broader Connections

• British abolition of slavery directly triggered the Great Trek #corroborates (0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1420
• British colonies enforced racial segregation decades before the boer republics did #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1471