Nobody at the Cape set eyes on black people until 130 years after the white settlers arrived at the cape , when the Trekboers met the Xhosa in the valleys of the Amatola in 1770. The slaves that the settlers imported added to the bloodline of the settlers , as did the French Hugenots of 1688 and British Settlers of 1820. In 1834 slavery was abolished in the Cape.
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