Paige Seale 10Y Pd 8 may 2015
Heritage Assignment: Slavery in the Cape.
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery -Harriet Ann Jacobs.
Slavery in the cape was an immense turning point in South Africa’s history, yet many South Africans don’t know anything about the gruelling events that happened between 1652 and 1838 . The experience of slavery in the cape has been over-looked or forgotten in today’s society, slaves were forced to forget about their freedom and forget about the liberties of life that we take for granted. Many …show more content…
Jan van Riebeeck left The Netherlands in 1651, and arrived at the cape on the 6th April 1652. Riebeeck set up the refreshment station and requested slaves. The first slave’s name was ‘Abraham van Batavia’ and he arrived in 1653. In 1657, there were 10 slaves in the establishment and the population was 144 people. The number of slaves dramatically increased the next year when the Dutch captured seized a Portuguese ship with 500 slaves aboard it. 250 slaves were taken to the cape and a few months later 228 slaves were brought down from Guinea. (Wikipedia/ Wikimedia foundation inc. …show more content…
many people looked down at the former slaves and others were scared of them. They never got to live a normal life and lived in constant fear of slavery retuning. Many of the slave’s lives were ruined due to the fact that they were brutally whipped and the female slaves got the children ripped away from them. I can not even begin to imagine what it feels like to lose someone close to you because of a petty reason such as slavery. (Jacobs/ SAHO/ no date)
‘Cultural legacies’ is a very sensitive topic in south Africa. When faced with a decision, individuals rely on their past experiences to reduce the “what ifs” of making their new decisions. So ever since slavery, people have been putting people in categories due to the colour of their skin. Which lead up the famous “apartheid” everyone talks about but they forget the main event. The event that put everyone in different categories: slavery. (Fourie/ wordpress/ 2012 )
There are many monuments and museums that remind us of that difficult period that cape town had to go through such as ’ Iziko slave lodge’ and the ‘South African national gallery’ and a monument being the poorly named “slave monument “ which is positioned in church
Heritage Assignment: Slavery in the Cape.
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery -Harriet Ann Jacobs.
Slavery in the cape was an immense turning point in South Africa’s history, yet many South Africans don’t know anything about the gruelling events that happened between 1652 and 1838 . The experience of slavery in the cape has been over-looked or forgotten in today’s society, slaves were forced to forget about their freedom and forget about the liberties of life that we take for granted. Many …show more content…
Jan van Riebeeck left The Netherlands in 1651, and arrived at the cape on the 6th April 1652. Riebeeck set up the refreshment station and requested slaves. The first slave’s name was ‘Abraham van Batavia’ and he arrived in 1653. In 1657, there were 10 slaves in the establishment and the population was 144 people. The number of slaves dramatically increased the next year when the Dutch captured seized a Portuguese ship with 500 slaves aboard it. 250 slaves were taken to the cape and a few months later 228 slaves were brought down from Guinea. (Wikipedia/ Wikimedia foundation inc. …show more content…
many people looked down at the former slaves and others were scared of them. They never got to live a normal life and lived in constant fear of slavery retuning. Many of the slave’s lives were ruined due to the fact that they were brutally whipped and the female slaves got the children ripped away from them. I can not even begin to imagine what it feels like to lose someone close to you because of a petty reason such as slavery. (Jacobs/ SAHO/ no date)
‘Cultural legacies’ is a very sensitive topic in south Africa. When faced with a decision, individuals rely on their past experiences to reduce the “what ifs” of making their new decisions. So ever since slavery, people have been putting people in categories due to the colour of their skin. Which lead up the famous “apartheid” everyone talks about but they forget the main event. The event that put everyone in different categories: slavery. (Fourie/ wordpress/ 2012 )
There are many monuments and museums that remind us of that difficult period that cape town had to go through such as ’ Iziko slave lodge’ and the ‘South African national gallery’ and a monument being the poorly named “slave monument “ which is positioned in church