Dutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… settlers built houses, shops, taverns and offices and a new town grew. People became carpenters, bricklayers, inn … the city, slaves did almost all skilled work. Some learnt new skills or used those they had learnt in their own … develop farming more, and so decided to send a number of new people to the Cape. It hoped that the French would be …