Section 2

Question 1

Read the passage and answer the questions.

1. Explain what is happening in the passage.
2. Why are the men taking the children?
3. What were the children known as by white farmers? Why?
4. Did these children see their families again?
5. What did the men do with these children?

Answer 1

1. White farmers are raiding black villages and stealing the children.
2. They needed workers to work on their farms.
3. They were known as black ivory because they were so valuable.
4. No, they had to work for the farmer for 25 years.
5. They traded them for goods and cattle.

Question 2

Identify the groups of people shown on the map.

Answer 2

1. San
2. British
3. Dutch
4. KhoiKhoi
5. Xhosa

Question 3

Place the following events in the correct order on the timeline:

• Slaves from Africa became the biggest group.
• Slaves brought to Cape mainly from Madagascar and East Africa.
• Emancipation (freeing) of the slaves.
• About 63 000 slaves had been brought to the Cape.
• Slaves brought to Cape mainly from Madagascar and India.

Answer 3

Question 4

The area around the Orange River formed the …..

Answer 4

… Northern Cape.

Question 5

Which 2 other groups moved into the Northern Cape?

Answer 5

• Griqua - descendants of the Khoikhoi abd Europeans
• Kora - mixture of escaped slaves, Khoikhoi and white people

Question 6

Who also came into the area (northern Cape) and changed the way of life of local people?

Answer 6

• Missionaries
• Traders

Question 7

What did the traders trade in Kuruman in 1821?

Answer 7

They traded:

• Guns
• Horses
• Shop-bought goods

for:

• feathers
• ivory
• skins

Question 8

What did Georg Schmidt do?

Answer 8

He taught the Khoikhoi people to read and write.

Question 9

Name the 2 indigenous groups of people living in the Cape by the beginning of the 17th century.

Answer 9

• Khoikhoi
• San

Question 10

What does DEIC stand for?

Answer 10

The Dutch East India Company

Question 11

Who could apply to be free from the DEIC and what were they known as?

Answer 11

• Those Dutch and French citizens who completed their 3-year contract.
• Known as Free Burghers.

Question 12

How did the Voortrekker ruin people’s way of life?

Answer 12

• As they moved into the S.A interior they battled various groups over land, grazing and cattle.
• They often won the battles because they had horses and guns.

Question 13

List 2 similarities and 2 differences between slaves and inboekstellings.

Answer 13

• Similarities:

1. Both belonged to the farmers who bought, traded or captured them.
2. Both were forced to work.

• Differences:

1. Most slaves came from outside S.A while the inboekstellings were local people.
2. Inboekstellings were free to leave when they turned 25 years old while the slaves were not allowed to leave.