South African Slave Trade Analysis

Slavery was brought to the Cape by a man named Jan van Riebeeck (SA History.org, 2017 ) in the year 1652 only for slavery to be abolished two centuries later in 1834 . Slaves were brought to the Cape because VOC officials who were granted farming land required assistance (SA History.org, 2017) these Dutch people were known as the Free Burghers. However the indigenous people of South Africa the Khoikhoi refused and were unwilling to work on the Free Burghers farms , which meant labour needed to be outsourced. Upon discovery of this Jan van Riebeeck requested for assistance to acquire slaves from Heeren XVII, which first was denied as he refused to support his request (Iziko.org 2018). In efforts to resolve the situation , two Dutch ships were sent to source slaves from Madagascar a well-known location for slave trade , which only returned with rice and connections to a slave trade , yet on the second voyage to Madagascar the ship ‘ Tulp’ sank , as a result of this extreme loss of man power assistance was granted by Heeren XVII and two slaver ships were sent in for the Cape Dutch to make use of ( Richard Elphick and Hermann Gillomee ) .With the introduction of slaves , slaves soon became …show more content…
This occurred when the British took political control over South Africa , therefore British law had applied in South Africa as it had become a British colony , so when slavery had been abolished in Britain and the Transatlantic slave trade , slavery was to be abolished in all colonies. However as a result the slave trade was first abolished in 1807 but not the actual slavery in the Cape (