Strangers Ashore

Worden’s chapter examines the experience of sailors on shore in eighteenth-century Cape Town. Sailors in the Dutch East India Company (VOC) had a strong sense of collective identity, reinforced by the coastal regions of Europe from which they were recruited and their living and working conditions on board ship. On land they were a minority and as temporary visitors they were distinct from the soldiers, slaves and settlers of Cape Town with whom they frequently came into conflict. Worden analyses the nature of these conflicts and the distinct social and cultural identities of sailors that they can reveal

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