First Fifty Years - a project collating Cape of Good Hope records

Abraham van Bengale¹

M, #14296, b. circa 1659

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Last Edited

16/03/2015

BirthOrigin*

Abraham was from Bengal and may have been born there circa 1659. Van Bengale - or from Bengal - was a term loosely applied during the period of VOC dominance to enslaved or formerly enslaved people from any of the countries bordering the Bay of Bengal.¹

Slave Transactions

On 29 March 1689 Abraham van Bengale was sold by Gerhard Coetser to Johannes Blesius, for Rds. 50.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.154.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.154. 29.3.1689, pp. 180-181: Abraham from Bengal (30), sold by Gerhard Coutier (signature Gcrhard Coetser) to Johannes Blesius for Rds. 50.