cause the mission stations and the Cape Regiment had places for only a
small proportion of the Khoikhoi population, these laws bound most of
them to compulsory servitude to white landowners.V
Whereas the British antislavery movement was directed primarily at the
Caribbean islands and only secondarily at the Cape, evangelical mission-
aries had been generating a radical critique of the status of the Khoikhoi.
The first missionaries to the Khoikhoi were German Moravians who
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