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Pastimes : Slavery Reparations
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To: Frederick Smart who wrote (195)2/23/2003 12:10:30 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire   of 203
 
DUTCH COLONIAL SOUTH AFRICA
1652: The Dutch East India Company started a refreshment station at the Cape for its VOC shipping fleet on their way to East and/or on their return trips from Batavia[ i.e. present day Java as part of Indonesia] ;
1658 : The first shipload of slaves are brought to the Cape, from Angola on-board the ship, the Amersfoort;
1666 : Slaves built the Castle – Fort Good Hope;
1679 : Foundations are laid for the Company Slave Lodge;
1693 : Slaves at the Cape outnumber free people for the first time. They are mainly from around the Indian Ocean – Mocambique, Madagascar, Mauritius;
1717 : VOC decides to retain the institution of slavery as the main labour system for the Cape;
1725 : Evidence that runaway slaves have been living at the mountainous Hangklip for extensive periods, between Gordons Bay and Kleinmond/Hermanus;
1738 : The Moravian Church started their first mission station at Baviaans-kloof, now known as Genadendal in the Swellendam district;
1754 : The governor, Tulbagh consolidated the numerous VOC slave regulations into a single placaaten, the CAPE SLAVE CODE;
1754 : A census taken of the Cape colony at the time showed the two populations, both slaves and settlers to be roughly equal to about 6000 each.
More info @
batavia.rug.ac.be
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