Petition of Johannesburg Uitlanders to Queen Victoria

Historical Context Note

Litencyc Editors (Independent Scholar - Europe)
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Expatriate migrant workers, known as Uitlanders, living in the Boer-run Transvaal republic at Johannesburg, send a petition to Queen Victoria that details their grievances against the Boers. A concern for the mistreatment of uitlanders was one of the pretexts on which the British justified their movement towards the Second Boer War, which breaks out in October 1899.

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Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "Petition of Johannesburg Uitlanders to Queen Victoria". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 December 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19283, accessed 28 March 2024.]

19283 Petition of Johannesburg Uitlanders to Queen Victoria 2 Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves.

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