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Titus van Malabar¹

M, #15400, b. circa 1658

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Last Edited

04/03/2016

BirthOrigin*

Titus was from Malabar and may have been born there circa 1658. He was 14 when sold as a slave in 1672. It should be born in mind that the toponym 'van Malabar' or from Malabar was a term loosely applied during the period of VOC dominance to enslaved or formerly enslaved people from the west coast of the Indian sub-continent south of Goa.¹

Slave Transactions

Titus van Malabar and Andries van Malabar were sold by Admiral Joan Barra to Johann Conrad von Breitenbach on 14 April 1672, for Rds. 110.^2,3

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 130.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 130. 14.4.1672, V, p. 202: Titus (14) and Andries (20), both from Malabar. sold by Admiral Joan Barra sailing on the Swanenburglz, to Coenraad van Breijtenbach for Rds. 110.
[S607] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse notariële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (II), Die tweede Dekade 1671-1680", Kronos (Die notariële stukke II) 15 (1999): 14.4.1672 CTD 5, p. 202
d’Ed Joan Barra, opperkoopman en vooradmiraal oor die Ceylonse retoerskepe en met die Swanenburgh terugkerende, verkoop aan die edele Coenraat van Breittenbach, luitenant in die fort, die twee lyfeies Titus, 14, en Andries, ongeveer 20 jaar, beide gebore aan die Malabarkus vir 110 Rds.. Hereinafter cited as "Die notariële stukke II."