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South African Faith history in Global Perspective: Castle Museum and Slave Lodge: Heritage of Slavery at the Cape

This Library Guide focuses on South African Faith history from the late 17th Century at the Cape to the 21st Century in the modern era.

Castle Museum and Slave Lodge

The Camissa Museum tells the stories of the peopling of the Cape. It reveals the rich and complex history of Camissa Africans, those classified as ‘Coloured,’ who have been portrayed by others for centuries but never by themselves. This history and these stories, that have been buried and hidden for centuries, are now told for the first time.

The museum is a place of memory and restoration; it uncovers a hidden ancestral and cultural past, crucial for communities to understand themselves and for a common understanding among different communities.

We believe that knowledge of our history and origins builds vital self-understanding that fosters that important sense of belonging and connection to place. We believe that a people who know their history and origins are better able to navigate their present and future.  

South African Faith history in Global Perspective