Panorama of Cape Town and Environs, Seen from the Sea, Robert Jacob Gordon (attributed to), 1778

Panorama of Cape Town and Environs, Seen from the Sea, Robert Jacob Gordon (attributed to), 1778

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The Dutch East India Company (VOC) also widely engaged in slavery in the southernmost tip of Africa. Enslaved people were shipped from countries around the Indian Ocean to Cape Town. There they worked as domestics and in agriculture to provision the passing VOC ships. Cape Town was also the last place where the Dutch could sell their enslaved servants before heading home.

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