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Article: Not all slaves were servile to their masters, some paid the price for rebelliousness.(News)
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- Cape Argus (South Africa)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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It was really just a routine case. Apollos of Macassar, 55, slave mason belonging to the Wynberg land-owner and former landdrost of Graaff-Reinet, Honoratus Christiaan David Maynier (1760-1831), was due to be scourged for desertion.
The elderly mason was aggrieved because his master expected him to do the same heavy work as his big strong Mozambican farm slaves, and he couldn't keep up.
He was so miserable that he attempted to stab a white constable and two convict policemen with a large carving knife when they tried to arrest him in Strand Street in 1819.
He was disarmed, dragged off to the tronk and sentenced to be flogged with rattans in the ...