Were your ancestors “Free Blacks” in South Africa”?

Start searching this amazing collection of names of Free Blacks from 1807. This database has Census of the Free Black Community on the Eve of the Abolition of the Oceanic Trade.
This census is important for when it was taken, the year before the importation of slaves into the Cape ceased. The origins of the free blacks listed here reveal who was manumitted and where they were born. The census also contains details of their spouses and partners and their origins. This was clearly a “groep sonder grense” to use Hans Heese’s title.

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