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Cezar van Bengale¹

M, #16188, b. 1686/87

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Last Edited

19/12/2021

BirthOrigin*

Cezar was from Bengal and was perhaps born there in 1686/87. 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. He was said to be 8 or 9 years old in 1695.¹

Names in the record, in publications, etc.

5 March 1698, the name of Cezar was written in the record as Caesar van Madras.²

Slave Transactions

On 21 May 1695 Cezar van Bengale on behalf of Joan de Klerck by Thomas Evans to Jan Feuber, for Rds. 50.³
On 5 March 1698 Cezar van Bengale was sold by Joost Cornelis and Johann Carsten Fuber to an unknown person , for Rds. 60. I have assumed this to be the same lad purchased by Fuber in 1695.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.170.. 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. 183. 5.3.1698: Caesar from Madras (10), sold by Johan Fuber on his departure to his fatherland to Joost Cornelis van 't Zas van Genor for Rds. 60.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.170. 21.5.1695. p. 125: Cezar from Bengal (8/9), sold by Thomas Evans on behalf of Joan de Klerck, the captain of the Foulcon, to Jan Feuber, Free Burgher at the Cape, for Rds. 50.