Theme
Slavery
Events involving slavery, abolition, emancipation, apprenticeship, and post-emancipation labour controls.
Initial theme stub generated from the nineteenth-century event dataset.
Events
1654VOC authorises the importation of enslaved labour to the CapeMarch 1655Three enslaved people recorded at the Cape1656First recorded manumission of an enslaved person at the Cape1658First school for enslaved children established28 March 1658Amersfoort brings enslaved Angolans to the Cape6 May 1658Hasselt brings a second large group of enslaved Africans29 May 1658Corenhoop slave lodge completed at the fort28 July 1679New Company Slave Lodge completedLate seventeenth centuryCape slave-import network expands across the Indian OceanLate seventeenth centuryWheat and wine farming expand in the south-western Cape1685Slave Lodge school established on a more permanent basis1690Enslaved people in Stellenbosch attempt an uprisingLate seventeenth centuryA Cape Dutch creole speech community begins to developFebruary–March 1766Meermin slave revolt1793First Cape Muslim madrasah associated with Tuan Guru1794 or 1795Auwal Masjid is established in Cape Town27 December 1794São José slave ship wrecks at Camps Bay1 December 1834Slavery abolished in the Cape