Search the 1823 Census of the Slave Lodge in Cape Town.   The lodge was situated at the top of Adderley Street almost at the entrance to the Company Gardens and opposite the hospital. Although the slaves were sometimes better educated than local populous their daily chores were not attractive. Whilst the men were made to carry buckets of human excrement down to the beach,  the lodge was turned into a whorehouse where the local men could have their way with the women. There were almost equal slave men to woman and sometimes couples in the lodge were given permission to get married.  Browse the record here.

Many of the slaves qualified as skilled artisans whilst working for their owners. Masons, blacksmiths and carpenters were just some of the trades. Many slaves whilst being sent to work on farms that were well cultivated with wheat and vineyards. Slaves owned by the colonists were not permitted to marry until 1823.