Dutch South Africa: Early Settlers at the Cape, 1652-1708

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Troubador Publishing Ltd, 2005 - 192 pages
This work is an account of the Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope during its formative years from 1652 to l708.
 

Contents

Arrival of the Dutch at the Cape
1
Jan van Riebeecks initiatives
10
Van Riebeecks developing community
24
Hazards of the sea
41
Slaves freemen and burghers
53
Van Riebeecks later years
65
Lean years of weak leadership
79
Consolidation under two governors
95
Impact of Simon van der Stel
106
In search of copper
129
Arrival of the Huguenots
135
Years of expansion
142
Willem Adriaans misjudgments
159
Downfall of Willem Adriaan
174
Collapse of the Dutch East India Company
184
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John Hunt was educated at Radley College and Wadham College, Oxford. His career as an educationalist culminated as Headmaster of the presetigious girls' school Roedean in Sussex. His lifelong interest in historical geography includes research on seventeenth century Dutch-Scottish east coast trade, and writing articles on fine arts, architecture and travel for leading journals.

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