Book contents
- The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600–1800
- Additional material
- The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600–1800
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Cover Image
- Maps
- Note on Terminology
- Preface
- Frontispiece
- Introduction
- Part I The Grumbling Hive
- Part II The Atlantic World
- Introduction
- 4 The Caribbean
- 5 New Holland and New Netherland
- 6 Africa
- Conclusion
- Part III Monsoon Asia
- Coda
- References
- Index
6 - Africa
from Part II - The Atlantic World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 September 2020
Book contents
- The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600–1800
- Additional material
- The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600–1800
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Cover Image
- Maps
- Note on Terminology
- Preface
- Frontispiece
- Introduction
- Part I The Grumbling Hive
- Part II The Atlantic World
- Introduction
- 4 The Caribbean
- 5 New Holland and New Netherland
- 6 Africa
- Conclusion
- Part III Monsoon Asia
- Coda
- References
- Index
Summary
In Africa, the Dutch settled at the Cape of Good Hope, originally planned as a stop-over for the East Indiamen en route to and from Asia, in addition to the conquest and construction of several forts in present-day Ghana, which became important in the Dutch slave trade. In some ways the Dutch expansion in the Atlantic resembled that of England and France. All three founded settlement and plantation colonies and all three, together with Portugal, established some footholds on the African coast. The Dutch in South Africa, however, incorporated large numbers of foreigners both as settlers and as soldiers.
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- The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600–1800 , pp. 212 - 237Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020