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

Risie Jacobs¹

F, #14406, b. circa 1675

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Last Edited

17/02/2015

Birth*

Risie Jacobs was born circa 1675.¹

Crime and related

Before 3 February 1681 Cupido van Bengale forcefully raped Risie Jacobs. Her age is unknown but she was a minor. She was the daughter of his owner.²

Citations

[S205] Mansell G. Upham 'Keeping the gate of Hell… 'subliminal racism' & early Cape carnal conversations between black men & white women', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (http://e-family.co.za/ffy/ui66.htm), 18 October 2012. "The slave belonging to the constable at the Castle, Jacob van der Voorde and his wife, the vroedvrouw Jelletie Hartmans, was accused of creeping up against the minor child of his master, Risie Jacobs, one night."
[S205] Mansell G. Upham 'UL06 Keeping the gate of Hell…', Uprooted Lives Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "The slave belonging to the constable at the Castle, Jacob van der Voorde and his wife, the vroedvrouw Jelletie Hartmans, was accused of creeping up against the minor child of his master, Risie Jacobs, one night. He sexually molested her in cas van onkuysheijt en collicitatie meaning that the slave had used force to gain his ends. Her age at the time is unknown, but we do know that her sister Helena was baptised (1676) so that she must have been at least seven-years old. On 3 February 1681 Cupido van Bengale was charged with the crime of having had criminal conversation with his master's daughter. His situation was further aggravated by additional charges of fornication about three years ago. ...He was sentenced to be hanged and burned under the gallows. The minutes of the Council of Justice state that “the prisoner had nothing to say in his defence, but left all to the will of the court”. Risie Jacobs and her parents left the Cape soon after the incident. What became of her later is not known."