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In the wake of the arrival of the East India Company and its settlement at the Cape of Good Hope, also the Christian faith came to South Africa. In a series of biographical studies this book looks at the lives of men and women, including the enslaved people, and their relation to the Church.
Based on extensive archival research from both the Netherlands and South Africa, the book uncovers the story of young men and women, freeborn or enslaved, in the emerging society at the Cape, halfway station for ships between the Low Countries and the Indonesian archipelago. It is the first book to provide such in-depth research to uncovered sources. The author demonstrates that the face of the Church was surprisingly broad in confession and policy as it also counted emancipated slaves among her members.
Telling the story of two early decades at the Cape, the book will be of interest to researchers in the history of society and Church in the seventeenth century of colonial Europe and Africa and the history of colonisation, slavery and South Africa.
Contents
Table of contents
Series preface
Introduction
1. Joan van Arckel, 'first resident minister'
1.1 Two ships, a young minister, and a comforter of the sick
1.2 The publication of a disputation
1.3 Johannes Hoornbeeck
1.4 The conversion of American Indians
1.5 A student's social network
1.6 The Indies or the Cape?
1.7 Church books
1.8 A Church with no name
1.9 The commander's spirituality
1.10 A rhythm of Church services
1.11 Joan van Arckel's legacy
1.12 A window on Van Arckel's youth
2. A mass baptism of slave children
2.1 Pierre Casier, another Hoornbeeck student
2.2 VOC directors and classes: conflict over competences
2.3 Called to baptize
2.4 Wagenaer's weight
3. Johannes de Vooght: the expected permanent minister?
3.1 Johannes de Vooght, one of the Amsterdam twins
3.2 A minister's work
3.3 The Baldaeus incident
3.4 Jacobus Burenus: who decides for the Cape?
4. Petrus Wachtendorp and the West Indian Company
4.1 Cajana
4.2 The Maasbommel mystery
4.3 Second chances at the Cape
4.4 The widow: No false testimony
4.5 Christian discipline
4.6 The sale of slaves
4.7 [letter of classis Amsterdam to Wachtendorp, 25 June 1663]
5. A Protest voice
5.1 Ethics of commerce
5.2 Catechism class
5.3 A Pamphlet from Zeeland
5.3.1 The missiologies of Voetius and Hoornbeeck
5.3.2 De Raad's Bedenckingen over den Guineeschen slaef-handel
5.4 Manumissions in the early years
6. Adrianus de Vooght
6.1 The other De Vooght
6.2 Pastoral practice
6.3 Baptismal practice
6.4 Communicant members
6.5 Child care for Koina kids
6.6 Marriages and guests
6.7 Slave trading?
7. Rudolph Meerlant
7.1 War ship minister
7.2 Casting lots
7.3 Election of elders and deacons
7.4 The Cape's orphans
7.5 Baptismal instruction of Roman-catholic parents
8. Petrus Hulsenaer: Taking stock of the flock
8.1 Commander Johan Bax and Meerlant's last report
8.2 Experience on outposts
8.3 Last will of a young couple
8.4 'About seventy members'
8.5 Again, the baptism of slave children
8.6 Johan Fredrick Stumphius: unexpected appearance
8.7 Baptismal discrimination?
8.8 Collegial communication in Latin
9. Johannes Overneij, seasoned servant
9.1 Disputation on providence
9.2 A schoolteacher as minister for the West Indies
9.3 The pull of the East Indies
9.4 The baptismal policy revisited, 1679
9.5 Van Reede's reform, 1685
9.6 From refreshment post to colony
9.7 Caring for the slaves and the colony's future
9.8 Baptism reconsidered
9.9 Pastoral care of passing Jesuits
9.10 Overneij's passing
10. Sisters, wives, widows
10.1 Elisabeth van Arckel, schoolmistress
10.2 Elisabeth Pauw, daughter of the VOC
10.3 Maria Prignon, a young widow
10.4 Anna Meranus, claiming her rights
10.5 Catharina and Anna de Vooght, family of the brothers
10.6 Women in Rudolph Meerland's life?
10.7 Rebecca van Baelbergen's last will
10.8 Barbara Simons Rottinga, minister's widow and farmer's wife
10.9 Balance
11. Deacons, the rich and the poor
11.1 Collections in Church
11.2 The liturgical form on deacons
11.3 Church finance equals poor relief
11.4 The deacons' bookkeeping
11.5 Silver for the Lord's table
11.6 Masters of the Orphan Chamber
11.7 Pieter van der Meerhoff and Eva's children
11.8 Deacons between Church and Company
12. Conclusions: A Solid Start
12.1 A congregation
12.2 The Church as a public body
12.3 The quality of the ministers
12.4 The Cape, Batavia and the classis Amsterdam
12.5 Elders and deacons
12.6 Slavery
Appendices
I. Joh. Van Arckel to consistory of Batavia, [25 August 1665]
II. Joh. Van Arckel to consistory of Batavia, [late December 1665]
III. Excerpt of letter by Rudolphus Meerlant [to consistory Batavia], 16 September 1676.
IV. Council and Consistory members
V. Last will of Hulsenae and Rebecca van Baelbergen
VI. Estate of Barbara Rottinga, widow of Rev. Johannes Overneij
Illustrations
Cover: One of the silver communion cups and plates, made by Daniel Echt in 1669, today preserved in Groote Kerk, Cape Town (see below Chapter 11.5).
Bibliography
Index of names
Index of places
Index of biblical passages
Index of subjects
