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From: "Kammie" <>
Subject: [SoAfricaHistory] SLAVE LODGE Museum , Cape Town-[Company Slave History at the Cape]
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 20:43:51 +0200

Hi SA HISTORY list participants

The SLAVE LODGE, presently housing the South African Cultural History
Museum, that displays the oldest cultural history collection of artefacts in
the country, at 49 Adderley Street, near the entrance of the public
Company Gardens, Cape Town is :
+ the only surviving Dutch East India VOC slave quarters of its kind in the
world;
+ during the first 170 + years of its existence from 1679 until 1811, it
housed about 500 VOC company owned slaves and up to 1000 VOC company owned
slaves at its peak;
+ was the largest 'plantation-type' slave quarters in South Africa when the
Cape of Good Hope colony was a slave holding society from the 1650's until
1834-38;
+ only VOC institutional enterprise which had its own ships dedicated to the
importation of African slaves & [Malagassy slaves-added] along the East
Coast of Africa e.g. Mocambique
& Madagascar;
+ slaves were imported from West Coast of Africa initially, thereafter from
India and Batavia, and later from Madagascar, and Mocambique, etc.;
+ it has been recommended as the focal point of the local UNESCO
'Trans-Indian Ocean slave trade route';
+ have a comprehensive register of VOC slaves and bandietien [convicts]
which has been
compiled by a UCT researcher, Linda Duvenage in close collaboration with the
Iziko
Museums of Cape Town, especially by the staff of the SLAVE LODGE

Enquiries : Dr Helene VOLLGRAAF
Tel No : 27[0]21-464-1268
Fax No : 27[0]21-460-8202
Email :
Website : http://www.museums.org.za/sachm/

Resident SLAVE LODGE professional archeaologist : Dr G Abrahams-Willis
Email :

Related SACHM publication :
VOLLGRAAFF, Helene [1997] : "The Dutch East India Company's Slave Lodge at
the Cape", South African Cultural History Museum [SACHM] publication,
ISBN 1-875045-26-0, Cape Town, RSA


>The Social History Collections Division of the regional Southern flagship
>collective, the IZIKO Museums of Cape Town is launching the first pages of
>their institutional website on Slave History at the Cape on 1 December
>2002.

>This corporate website is a joint digital project with several other
>establishments such as South African Heritage Resources Agency, National
>Library of South Africa [i.e. former South African Library branch] , the
>Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport [of the Western Cape government]
>and professional researchers such as the two University of Cape Town-based
>academics, Prof Nigel WORDEN, a slave historian and Dr. Antonia MALAN, a
>archeaologist.

>The launch will take place in the SLAVE LODGE, at the corner of Wale
>Street and Adderley Street, in the centre of Cape Town, near the
>Parliamentary Building complex on Emancipation Day, December, 1st , 2002.

>The launch of this institutional website will be followed by a short
>programme to commemorate the emancipation of slaves on 1st of
>December,1834.

>You are, also, welcome to [visit and-added] view the pace-setting South
African Slavery
>webpages hosted by B@t,avia based at the "Centre for Sustainable
>Development/Third World Studies" at the University of Ghent, Belgium at the
following
>address:
>Website : http://batavia.rug.ac.be/slavery/


From: Mogamat Kamedien
<>

Date: 15 November 2002
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