The Early Cape Slave Trade
… any part in the global slave trade. This all changed when, on 28 March 1685, the Dutch merchantman, the Amersfoort , … Van Riebeeck, in exasperation, took matters into his own hands and sent two small ships, the Tulp and the Rode Vos , … with the hope of getting more slaves, the Tulp was sent on a second slaving voyage to Madagascar. But this time round …