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Silence of the enslaved

Ashraf Kagee’s Song of the Slave Girl reimagines Cape slavery through emotion, love and loss, giving voice to histories erased from official memory

  • Eyaaz
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SM Slader’s 1824 engraving Sale of a Negro Family, of a slave auction in Cape Town. Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

The truth about Cape slavery and historical misrepresentations

This is an edited extract from Patric Tariq Mellet’s The Truth About Cape Slavery

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