This summary includes - Indigenous inhabitants of the Cape, exploration of East Indies and South-East Asia, Dutch refreshment station at the Cape, Jan van Riebeek and the VOC, free "burghers", slavery at the Cape, slave resistance, slave legacy, Dutch and French Huguenots, smallpox epidemic, trekboers, how the expansian of the Cape Colony influenced the Khoikhoi and San. This summary includes a timeline.
