Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Governor Simon van der Stel's mother was a free Slave Indian woman from Goa.


SIMON VAN DER STEL


It is not well known that Governor of the Cape, Simon van der Stel born 14 October 1639 was the son of a Dutch Commander of Mauritius and a free slave Indian woman from Goa.
After an unhappy marriage in the Netherlands van der Stel arrived in the Cape without his wife in 1679. He died in June 1717.

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