The First Slaves at the Cape
… The first mention of Anthony is made by Van Riebeeck on 12 March 1655, when he notes that Anthony has ‘quite … killed by the KhoiKhoi. The journal entry from March 12 1655 reads: It is now several days since we first missed a … and Kleine Eva. Cornelia, aged 10, and Lijsbeth, aged 12, were two so called ‘Arabian’ slave girls from Abyssinia, …