First Fifty Years - a project collating Cape of Good Hope records - Unnamed and Gender Unspecified Slave van Madagascar

Unnamed and Gender Unspecified Slave van Madagascar¹

?, #15721, b. circa 1660

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Last Edited

27/12/2014

BirthOrigin*

Unnamed was from Madagascar and perhaps born there circa 1660.¹

Slave Transactions

On 28 January 1684 Unnamed and Gender Unspecified Slave van Madagascar was exchanged by Steven Bradly with Wilhelm Meyer for the slave Claes plus Rds. 20. Given the cash sum paid, this transaction seems unusual, if not unlikely, and I have therefor for now assumed there were just two slaves involved, and that Böeseken misread the record that a third was included. Corrections welcome.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 141.. 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. 141.28.1.1684: Steven Bradly sold a slave to Willem Meijer and exchanged another slave for Claes plus Rds. 20.