The first slave arrived at the Cape in 1653 and was called Abraham van Batavia. Slaves were brought from Madagascar, Malaya and East Africa. The slaves were taken against their will. The slaves that were shipped were all black, this was not due to racism but to the fact that it was illegal to enslave Christians. Slaves who worked in the Cape were assigned all the jobs that needed to be done, including tasks such as field work, farming, housework, child care, gathering firewood, and any necessary butchering. Slaves lived in slave lodges that were dirty and cramped; they lived a sad and miserable life. Skilled slaves had privileges but were still exploited. In the 18th century there were more slaves than colonists. Along with the importation of slaves, female slaves who had children were also considered slaves, even if they belonged to the master. Slaves were beaten when they failed to do their assigned work. Because of these poor conditions and the few privileges slaves received, many slaves showed resistance in their daily lives. Slaves rebelled against slave owners, ran away, and completed daily acts of rebellion such as slow labor. The largest slave rebellion occurred in 1808, many slaves had heard of slave rebellions occurring in the Caribbean and America. This idea drove a slave named Louis from Mauritius, as well as a group of other slaves and two Khoikhoi men. They planned to march as a group from rural areas to the city of Cap. They would recruit slaves along the way. They hoped to turn their guns on the castle and try to negotiate peace and freedom for the slaves, but after marching to Cape Town the news of the rebellion... middle of paper... turned into a permanent slave museum. This will be a tribute to the 9000 slaves, convicts and mentally ill people who resided in the building between 1679 and 1811. The Slave Monument in Church Square is a memorial to slaves who were treated inhumanely during colonization Dutch in the Cape. The memorial is made up of eleven granite blocks, two granite blocks are placed on a raised pedestal at the corner near the slave lodge, and the remaining nine are together in a dense grid located near the slave tree plaque. The shared footprint is a representation of common humanity, while their different heights represent growth. On the blocks are the names of the many slaves who were enslaved. It is important to remember the slaves who suffered during the colonization of the Dutch as we can learn from the mistakes of the past.