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The Legacy of Slaves at the Cape - Coggle Diagram
The Legacy of Slaves at the Cape
Language
Historians argue that Afrikaans developed as the result of slaves trying to communicate
with their mainly Dutch-speaking owners.
The first Afrikaans was written in Arabic script.
These manuscripts were mainly Muslim
religious texts but also included letters.
Afrikaans also contains many words that came from the
eastern languages spoken by the slaves.
Examples of these words are: baie -many, sjambok - whip, tjommel - to talk a lot
The home languages of slaves transported to South Africa were diverse .
They came from Buginese,Javanese , Malagasy, Tamil and importantly, two Indian Ocean Iingua franca's,Creole Portuguese and Malay.
Slave interpreters from the Slave lodge spoke several languages and were taken by the VOC on its slaving to Madagascar.
They played an important role in helping to procure slaves.
Food
The origin of some South African recipes can be seen in the name of food , for example sosaties , brediee, curry ,bobotie ,koeksisters and tameletjie.
The slaves had a big influence on the kind of food South Africans eat.
Slaves on the countryside ate food grown on the farms. Sometimes they would have fish and rice.
Salve owners took advantage of lack of legislation and gave their slaves food of very poor nutrition.
Buildings
The slaves built many of the old buildings that date back to the Dutch colonial period.
Examples of Buildings they built:example the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town and the houses on Cape wine estates such as Groot Constantia, Vergelegen and Simonsig, as well as ordinary dwellings in Cape Town and surrounding areas.
The Slave Lodge was the largest slave holding at the Cape until 1806.The original structure of the Lodge was completed in 1679. It was an uncomfortable place for the slaves so live.
Religion
In Cape Town, Islam was also regarded as the religion of resistance.
Muslims were not permiitted to pray in public , they had to do so clandestinely.
All salves were batiste and could only practice christian religion.
Islam was one of the main religions of slaves but slave owners would not allow the slaves to practice the religion.
Music
Indigenous tribespeople and slaves
imported from the east adapted Western musical instruments and ideas.
The Khoi-Khoi, for instance, developed the ramkie, a guitar with three or four strings, based on that
of Malabar slaves, and used it to blend Khoi and Western folk songs.
Western music was played by slave orchestras.travelling musicians of mixed-blood stock moved around the colony entertaining at dances and other functions, a tradition that continued into the era of British domination after 1806.
The mamokhorong was a single-string violin that was used by the Khoi in their own music-making
and in the dances of the colonial centre,
Societal challenges that have occurred as a result of slavery
By the end of the eighteenth century, the almost 26,000-strong slave population of the Cape exceeded that of the free burghers (citizens, mostly of European extraction).
The country’s coloured inhabitants, who make up fifty percent of Cape Town’s population, are largely descendants of slaves and indigenous Khoisan people, and some historians argue that apartheid was a natural successor to slavery.
Slaves played a role in gaining their freedom by having slave rebellions.
The Khoikhoi lost their herds as more and more Khoikhoi grazing land was taken over for farms.
