Born a Crime

and the first mixed people of South
Africa were born.
To work the colonists’ farms,
slaves were soon imported from
different corners of the Dutch
empire, from West Africa,
Madagascar, and the East Indies.
The slaves and the Khoisan
intermarried, and the white
colonists continued to dip in and
take their liberties, and over time
the Khoisan all but disappeared
from South Africa. While most were
killed off through disease, famine,
and war, the rest of their bloodline
was bred out of existence, mixed in
with the descendants of whites and
slaves to form an entirely new race
of people: coloreds. Colored people
are a hybrid, a complete mix. Some
are light and some are dark. Some