slave legacy

Food:

Language:

Afrikaans was spoken in mosques by the slaves

The first Afrikaans was written in Arabic on manuscripts

Afrikaans was created by slaves in attempt to speak with their Dutch speaking owners.

Many of the Afrikaans words were from Eastern countries which a portion of the slaves came from

In the late 18th century Afrikaans was formed as a result of the slave owners having to speak with the slaves

Indian and Indonesian food influenced South African food download (2)

VOC members worked for many years in Batavia so they also brought this cuisine over

Slaves have influenced how we cook today

Indonesian style cuisine was brought with the slaves download (5)

Buildings:

They built: The castle of Good Hope, many houses on wine estates and normal houses around the Cape.

The slave lodge was built for the slaves so if there were no slaves there would not be a slave lodge download (3)

Slaves built lots of buildings for the Dutch

Religion

In the early 19th century (1832) a third of Cape Town's population was Muslim.

Some of the Muslim traditions we do today comes from slaves.

Islam was known as the religion of resistance because slaves and free blacks met in the homes of Muslim exiles

Islam was brought to the Cape by political exiles and slaves from the East Indies. download

Music

The Khoi-Khoi invented a guitar with 3 to 4 strings called a ramkie

The governor of the Cape had his own slave orchestra which played western music

Slaves that were brought in from the east adapted to the Western styled music download (4)

Societal challenges

Slaves exceeded the population of the free Burghers

Slavery is the most neglected topic in South Africa

people who are descendants of slaves are reluctant to admit it

Apartheid was a result of slavery