The settlers of 1820

Settlers land on the shore, Thomas Bance .

Border with farm designations, approx. 1835 year.

The settlers of 1820 ( 1820 Settlers ) are several groups or detachments of white British colonists settled by the British government and the authorities of the Cape Colony in the Eastern Cape in South Africa in 1820.

Most of the settlers were very poor people. The Cape Government settled people in the province in order to close, strengthen and protect the eastern borders from the neighboring people of Kos , as well as increase the number of English-speaking people. It was one of the largest groups of British settlements in Africa, the main cultural center of the Anglo-Africans was Albany County, where the formation of Anglo-Africans as a people took place. After many years, Albany County remained the "Anglo-Saxon island" in the country, whose population speaks mainly the Kos language and Afrikaans - a distinctive feature of which is its own culture and customs.

Initially, the total number of settlers who arrived in the Cape Colony from April to June 1820 was about 4,000. The settlers were given farms near the village of , they were provided with the necessary equipment and food completely free of charge. But due to the fact that the immigrants did not cultivate crops before, and did not want to cultivate, they were forced to move to Bathurst and other settlements, such as Grahamstown , East London and Port Elizabeth , where they mostly returned to trade .

A group of settlers of 1820 settled in the north to Natal, at that time - Zululand , the place of residence of the Zulu people. At that time, Chuck was the king of the Zulus. He allowed the newly arrived colonists from Natal to settle in the territory of Zululand. When the king saw how high the technological progress of the settlers was, he put forward an ultimatum to them: if the colonists want to continue to live in the kingdom, they must open them the technology of producing firearms ^[1] . According to Shelag O'Byrne Spencer, a genealogy specialist, among the 1820 settlers who settled in Natal were “John Balli, founder of East London, Charles Kestel, whose son, Revd Daniel Kestel, became famous for participating in the Boer War, her the name is the city of the Free State province ” ^[2] .

In memory of the settlers of 1820, a was unveiled in Grahamstown in 1974. The monument still exists today, every year a is held near the monument, and with it concerts and cultural events.