 Slave Lodge, Cape Town | |
  Location within Cape Town | |
| Coordinates | 33°55′30″S18°25′13″E / 33.92506°S 18.420393°E Coordinates: 33°55′30″S18°25′13″E / 33.92506°S 18.420393°E |
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| Type | Social history |
| Website | www |
The Slave Lodge is a South African social history museum located in Cape Town. It has been on its present site in the Company's Garden [ clarification needed ]. [1]
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The Company's Garden is the oldest garden in South Africa, a park and heritage site located in central Cape Town. The garden was originally created in the 1650s by the region's first European settlers and provided fertile ground to grow fresh produce to replenish ships rounding the Cape. It is watered from the Molteno Dam, which uses water from the springs on the lower slopes of Table Mountain.
The Meermin slave mutiny took place in February 1766 and lasted for three weeks. Meermin was one of the Dutch East India Company's fleet of slave ships. Her final voyage was cut short by the mutiny of the Malagasy people onboard, who had been sold to Dutch East India Company officials on Madagascar to be enslaved by the company in its Cape Colony in southern Africa. During the mutiny half the ship's crew and almost 30 Malagasy lost their lives.
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Cape Town:
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