2021-8-4 · An advantage; help or aid from something. It was for her benefit. His benefit was free beer. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698: When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young ...
The VOC and the world that slaves lived in. European colonial expansion introduced the system of Western slavery to the Cape. In many places slavery went hand in hand with colonialism. The Cape was colonised by the Dutch East India Company, better known …