Early Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1717 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781869191474)

The first slave reached the Cape in 1653, a year after the first white settler party under Jan van Riebeeck. Thousands more would follow. Slavery was to remain an institution here until the end of the Dutch period in 1795, and well beyond, for it was not until 1834, under British administration, that Cape slaves were finally emancipated. In Early Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope, Karel Schoeman describes the transplanting of slavery from the Dutch colonies in the East and the first sixty years of its development under local conditions, basing his account mainly on contemporary sources and providing as much information on individual slaves and their lives as these allow. Attention is likewise given to the gradual manumission of slaves and the slow development of a 'free black' community at the Cape towards the close of the seventeenth century.

Author: Karel Schoeman
ISBN-10: 1869191471
ISBN-13: 9781869191474
Publisher: Protea Book House
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2012
Pages: 507
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.70w x 1.50d