rades in Cape Town. Outside of Cape Town, most of the slaves were put to work on white-owned farms. However, thanks to slave labor, wheat and wine production increased substantially.
             While slavery didn’t last beyond the early part of the nineteenth century, it left a strong imprint on future social relations because of the master-servant relationships that existed before. Nevertheless the white settler population grew at a steady yet modest rate. Not only did the white population grow, but the land they owned grew as well. Farms of six thousand acres or more owned by white people became common. It soon became a virtual birthright to the sons of the plantation owners to expect large farms of their own. The colony expanded its frontier because of this system of white land tendency.
             By 1779, European settlements extended throughout the southern part of the Cape and east toward the Great Fish River. Here the Dutch authorities and the Xhosa (Bantu-speaking people of S Africa, formerly called Kafirs or Kaffirs by European colonialists.) fought the
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