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---1. A Concise History of the VOC
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---2. VOC
Kamers
---3. In Diens van VOC en Vertrek
---4. Vaart na die Kaap
---5. Skepe en Roetes
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---6. Sailors and soldiers, pay, positions etc
---7. Siektes en Ongevalle op die Skepe
---8. Vermaak en Geestelikheid
---9. Gereg en Ongereg
---10. Trade and Destinations
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INSTITUTIONS AT THE CAPE
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Fort de Goede Hoop in Tafelbaij
PAGE 5 ---B. The VOC Caep Siekenhuijs
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The Compagnie Tuin
------------D.
Die Kerk
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---E. The Slave Lodge
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--- Insights into the VOC Stamouers
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--- VOC Women in the East
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--- VOC Legacy
in AUSTRALIA
VOC
WOMEN IN THE EAST
by AM
van Rensburg
With one million men who sailed on VOC ship to the east, what female companionship did they have?
The women can be divided into European, Mesticos - a descendant of European man and an Asian woman, Swarte - Asian woman.
In the book In Between, there is a good description with regards to the VOC conquest of Colombo in Ceylon on May 1656: "The Capture of Portuguese territory provided the servants and soldiers of the VOC with a welcome prize from a personal point of view: namely, 'half-caste' women, as well as a number of semi-Christianized or Christianized 'black women' who had some familiarity with European ways. ..... a large number of widows and unmarried women mainly mestices or half caste women .... were available in the city as marriage partners .... within a few months 150 marriages were recorded"
Bibliography
Michael Roberts, Ismeth Raheen and Percy Colin-Thome: People inbetween: The
Burghers and the Middle Class in the Transformation within Sri Lanka