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Dutch settlement Unit 5 & 6 - Coggle Diagram
Dutch settlement Unit 5 & 6
Trekboers movement with slaves & Servants
Farmers moved to find best grazing land for cattle.
Leave farm for months, became trekboers.
Encouraged to move inland, north & east, create huge farms.
Trekboers, farmers who trek or move.
VOC needed livestock farmers to supply meat.
Trekboers became hunters & traded with Khoikhoi.
VOC got the wheat & wine from free burgher around the Cape.
Lifestyle and stories of trekboers
Lived in their wagons or in tents.
Hunted wild animals for meat.
Had horses and guns.
Got milk and meat from their sheep.
Travelled with their slaves and servants in ox-wagons.
Visited towns to get the supplies that not provide themselves.
Boiled fat-tailed sheep fat with wood ash to make soap.
Changes & exploration 18th Century
Khoikhoi not considered citizens.
Colony grew bigger, East & North.
Few freed slaves, known as 'free blacks'.
There were more slaves than free people.
Cape colony had 2 groups, slaves and freed citizens.
Genadendal
Genadendal means 'valley of grace and mercy'.
He taught them about Christianity and how to read.
He started a mission station called Genadendal.
In 1743 the VOC forced Schmidt to leave Genadendal.
He came to teach the Khoikhoi about Christianity.
1792: Moravians returned to restart the mission at Genadendal.
1737: a German missionary, Georg Schmidt, of the Moravian church came to the Cape.
Found an old woman, whose Christian name was Magdalena.
Magdalena's real name was Vehettge Tikkuie.
She read from the Bible to the other Khoikhoi all the years.
Magdalena's Bible has been kept in Genadendal.
In a box made from the wood of a pear tree planted by Schmidt.