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Cape slave resistance

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Cape slave resistance

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Enslaved and Khoikhoi workers march on Cape Town

📅 27 October 1808

More than 300 enslaved people and Khoikhoi labourers, led by Louis of Mauritius and others, attempted to end slavery and marched toward Cape Town. Colonial forces defeated the uprising and executed...