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Khoikhoi communities

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Khoikhoi communities

Gender: Male

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Smallpox reaches the Cape through VOC shipping

📅 13 February 1713

A ship’s infected laundry brought smallpox to the Cape station. The epidemic devastated Khoikhoi communities, while also killing enslaved people and settlers. As communities fled and died, settler...