Museum
Iziko Slave Lodge
Corner Adderley Street and, Wale St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000
Dutch East India Company lodge that confined the enslaved by day and opened nightly as a paid brothel.
This guide to the Iziko Slave Lodge in Cape Town opens with a visitor's account of handing over a stub of tobacco for entry, the price of admission to a building the Dutch East India Company built in 1679 to house the men, women and children it enslaved. It traces how the Company unlocked the same doors each night to free men from across town, and how almost everything historians know comes from criminal records and outsiders' notes rather than the women's own words. One name does survive in those records: Manda Gratia, who married a free man here in 1714.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.