Dutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… today, but is no longer a vegetable garden. In time, the settlers built a harbour and workshops for ship repairs. … ‘Boers’, the Dutch word for ‘farmer’. The VOC wanted more settlers to leave Holland and settle at the Cape. By the early 1700s, there were about 1000 Dutch settlers living in the Cape. The settlers built houses, …