Question

The Dutch trading ships reached southern Africa in the seventeenth

century. Soon a slave trade began. People were captured, chained, and

sold in slave markets. When slavery ended in 1834 there were 36,774

privately owned slaves at the Cape – located at the southernmost tip of

Africa. A visitor to the Cape in 1824 has left a moving account of what

he saw at a slave auction: Having learned that there was to be sale of

cattle, farm-stock, etc by auction.

We halted our wagon for the purpose of procuring fresh oxen. Among

the stock there was a female slave and her three children. The farmers

examined them, as if they had been so many head of cattle. They were

sold separately, and to different purchasers. The tears, the anxiety, the

anguish of the mother, while she … cast heart-rending look upon her

children, and the simplicity and touching sorrow of the poor young ones

while they clung to their distracted parent … contrasted with the marked

insensitivity and jocular countenances of the spectators.



a. In which century did Dutch ships land in Africa?

b. Who gave an account of slave auction?

c. When did Slavery end in Southern part of Africa?

please answer...

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Answer 1

Answer:

1. the dutch ships landed in the sevententh century in africa.

2. A visitor to the Cape in 1824 has left a moving account of what he saw at a slave auction: Having learned that there was to be sale of  cattle, farm-stock, etc by auction.

3. When slavery ended in 1834 there were 36,774  privately owned slaves at the Cape – located at the southernmost tip of  Africa.

Explanation: