Iziko Slave Lodge

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At the top corner of Adderley Street, just as it veers sharply northwest into Wale Street, The Slave Lodge was built in 1679 to house the human chattles of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) - the largest single slaveholder at the Cape.

For nearly two centuries - more than half the city's existence as an urban settlement  - Cape Town's economic and social structures 

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rested on slavery.

By the 1770s, almost a thousand slaves were held at the lodge.

Under VOC administration the lodge also became the Cape Colony's main brothel, its doors thrown open to all comers for an hour each night.

In 1810 the British administration decided to use the lodge as the Supreme Court, a function it retained for over a century.

To clear out the government-owned slaves, it auctioned most off to private individuals, while the remaining two hundred were moved to smaller accomodation in the Company's Gardens, where they remained until they were freed in 1827, nearly ten years earlier than the rest of the slaves at the Cape.

From 1914, the building was used as government offices, and now houses an 
exhibition, still evolving, about slavery.


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Taking an audio headset allows you to follow the footsteps of German salt trader Otto Menzl as he is taken on a tour of the lodge in the 1700s, which gives you a good idea of the miserable conditions at the time.


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