Slaves At The Cape

Question 1

Van Riebeeck soon realized that he need more people to work at the _____.

Answer 1

Settlement

Question 2

Why did he need slaves?

Answer 2

He did not have nearly enough workers to do all the work needed to start a settlement and supply passing ships.

Question 3

True or false

The local Khoikhoi were successful herders but had no interest in growing crops or doing building work for the Dutch.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

When did the first large groups of slaves come and where were they from?

Answer 4

In 1658 and from Angola and Gambia.

Question 5

How many slave were brought to the Cape between 1652 and 1808?

Answer 5

63 000

Question 6

Where were slaves from?

Answer 6

India 
Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 
East Indies
Madagascar 
Mozambique 
Angola 
Nigeria 
Gambia

Question 7

Slaves came by___.

Answer 7

Ship

Question 8

The VOC, and its officials, sold slaves from the east at the Cape. Many of these slaves were skilled ____ men and _____ workers. Many were Muslims.

Answer 8

Crafts

Domestic

Question 9

Slaves got ships from Britain, France and Portugal got slaves from places like—–, other places in Africa as well as Madagascar and sold the Cape.

Answer 9

Mozambique

Question 10

True or false

Between 1655 and 1786 the VOC organized 33 journeys to Madagascar to get slaves for the Cape.

Answer 10

False, 1654

Question 11

Where did most slaves work?

Answer 11

On the farms outside Cape Town.

Question 12

True or false

Slaves worked very long hours, and farm work was very hard.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

Who did some slaves belong to?

Answer 13

The VOC and they lived at the Slave Lodge in Cape Town.

Question 14

What did VOC slaves do?

Answer 14

Building work

Question 15

What did the VOC slaves build?

Answer 15

The castle that was started in 1666 to replace the mud fort.

Question 16

Slaves also worked in the VOC ___ where they grew vegetables.

Answer 16

Gardens

Question 17

Who did other slaves (not VOC) belong to?

Answer 17

Rich people, and worked as domestic workers in their houses. A few of these slaves were very skillful crafts people, and earned money for their owners as tailors, furniture makers and house plasterers.

Question 18

Why did they hate being slaves?

Answer 18

They had no control over their own lives, they had bad living conditions and suffered many cruelties.

Question 19

Slaves found many ways to ____.

Answer 19

Resist

Question 20

How many slave rebellions were there?

Answer 20

Two

Question 21

Although the rebellions failed, they made slave owners very _____.

Answer 21

Nervous

Question 22

What was the most common form on resistance?

Answer 22

Running away.

Question 23

The VOC was afraid that if a runaway slave was not caught quickly and punished other slaves would be _____ to do so as well.

Answer 23

Encouraged

Question 24

When did they have to report runaway slaves?

Answer 24

IMMEDIATELY!!!!

Question 25

How did they inform settlers of an escape?

Answer 25

Bells were rung that could be heard from far away and blue flags were flown at the Castle and on surrounding hilltops.

Question 26

Groups of runaway slaves lived in the _____.

Answer 26

Mountains

Question 27

What would runway slaves do to survive?

Answer 27

Sold wood,fished,stole food from farms and robbed travelers and wagons on the road to the Cape.

Question 28

What did Muslims write in?

Answer 28

Arabic script

Question 29

What is a legacy?

Answer 29

Something that is left behind.

Question 30

True or false
The slaves at the Cape left behind a legacy that can still be seen today in the people,food,dress,religion and language of the Cape.

Answer 30

True

Question 31

Many of the Slaves that the VOC brought from the East Indies were ____ in ____.

Answer 31

Muslims

1693

Question 32

Why was Sheik Yusuf Makassar sent to the Cape?

Answer 32

Because he was involved in a war against the Dutch.

Question 33

Who taught slaves about Islam?

Answer 33

Sheik Yusuf Makassar

Question 34

By 1840, ____ people had converted to Islam at the Cape , which was one-third of the total population of the colony.

Answer 34

6435

Question 35

In the late ____ Century, a Mosque and Madressa were established in Cape Town.

Answer 35

18th

Question 36

What language did all slaves have to learn and why?

Answer 36

Dutch, because it was the language they had to speak with their masters and owners.

Question 37

How did the Afrikaans language develop?

Answer 37

From a combination of the Dutch spoken by the people from the Netherlands and the languages spoken by the slaves.