Collection:History of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa×
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A Forgotten Diaspora: Forced Indian Migration to the Cape Colony, 1658 to 1834 by Parbavati Rama
This thesis aims to explore Indian forced migration to the Cape Colony from 1658 to 1834. The ‗forgotten diaspora‘ of its title refers to…
Grim History Traced in Sunken Slave Ship Found Off South Africa by Helene Cooper (The New York Times), 31 May 2015
Damon – The Malabar Slave (Historic Alleys)
Read this characterization of a Slave from Malabar (Walks & Sketches – Robert Semple) – He is in all respects the best of the household…
ArchiveThe Missing Mothers of the Slave Lodge - slave families in the Company Lodge, 1658 - 1828 by Robert Shell and Linda Mbeki, University of Cape Town,16 May 2014
ArchiveBehind Rangton's Door - a Balinese Woodcarver at Stellenbosch, 1673 to 1720 by Robert C.H. Shell
ArchiveSlavery and the Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean by Vijayalakshmi Teelock and Abdul Sheriff
Reports Concerning Slaves from India in South Africa
Jacob van der Heiden, a political prisoner, spent part of his confinement in April-May 1706 in a dungeon in the Castle in Cape Town, which…
Slavery in South Africa
It is hardly known in India that there was a considerable importation of slaves from Asia to South Africa by the Dutch East India Company…
Notes from Books
Jean Gelman Taylor, THE SOCIAL WORLD OF BATAVIA: EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN IN DUTCH ASIA. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin…
INDIAN SLAVES IN SOUTH AFRICA: A little-known aspect of Indian-South African relations by E. S. Reddy
The visit of Nelson Mandela to India may be an appropriate occasion to recall a little known but significant aspect of relations between…
Cape Slave Naming Patterns by Robert Shell
When Robert Semple visited Cape Town in 1804 he correctly noted the significance of the naming pattern for Cape Slave owners: It may here…
Simon's Town walking history tours
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
In an exploration of the attitudes taken by different cultures in different historical periods with regard to the cultural phenomenon of…
Indian Slaves in South Africa: Notes for monograph, 26 June 1995
INTRODUCTION There has been hardly any research in India on the transport of Indians to South Africa as slaves during the Dutch settlement…
Names of Slaves and Free Blacks
The following list is taken from Frank R. Bradlow and Margaret Cairns, The Early Cape Muslims, appendix II. A note by the authors says…
Die Eerste Vryswartes Van Stellenbosch - 1679-1720 by Prof. J.L. Hattingh, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 1981
[THE FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY OF SECTION 3 OF THE ABOVE PUBLICATION, CONCERNING LOUIS VAN BENGALE - NOT A PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATION] THE…
Let them Speak - Slave Stamouers of South Africa by André van Rensburg
The early Cape was settled not only by ex-VOC workers who became free burghers and the Huguenots but also by slaves who lost their freedom…
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
As a city, Cape Town sits on top of an uncomfortable history of colonialism, slavery, and formal racial segregation. This history has an…
The Making of a Runaway
Secrets of the Dead: Slave Ship Mutiny
The VOC hospital in Cape Town
WE HAVE THE KEY TO FREEDOM NOT THE OPPRESSOR, December 16, 1957
Albert Luthuli's Presidential Address to the Forty-fifth Annual Conference of the African National Congress, Orlando, Johannesburg,…
Letter from Maryland (http://www.archaeology.org/) by Julie Schablitsky
Some African Americans, however, haven’t lost touch with this past, and have found success tracing their lineages through manumission…