Slavery in South Africa

[1] In 1652, Jan van Riebeeck set up a refreshment station for ships bound to the Dutch East Indies in what is now Cape Town.

[2] After failing to obtain cattle and local people willing to work by negotiating with them, Van Riebeeck introduced slavery in the Cape Colony.

[4] The process was enhanced when settler colonialism commenced when former Dutch East India Company officials were granted land lots.

The agricultural settlements of the Boers economically dislocated the pastoral Khoekhoe in Table Bay, who were forced to serve as servants due to their loss of grazing land.

[2] At the same time, Parliament passed a series of acts known as the amelioration laws designed to provide better living conditions for slaves.