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Panorama of Cape Town and Environs, Seen from the Sea
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Panorama of Cape Town and Environs, Seen from the Sea

1778 · pen; brush; paper; ink; pencil; watercolor (paint)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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The Dutch East India Company (VOC) also widely engaged in slavery in the southernmost tip of Africa. Enslaved people were shipped from countries around the Indian Ocean to Cape Town. There they worked as domestics and in agriculture to provision the passing VOC ships. Cape Town was also the last place where the Dutch could sell their enslaved servants before heading home.

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