À partir de XIXᵉ siècle
Southern and central Namibia, Cape Colony, and Walvis Bay
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The Cape trade network expanded into southern and central Namibia during the 1840s and 1850s. Traders, missionaries, wagons, and livestock connected Windhoek, Rehoboth, Bethany, Berseba, Warmbad, Otjimbingwe, Walvis Bay, and routes toward the Cape. The network stimulated road building, migration, commercial hunting, mining, and the movement of firearms and ammunition, while also increasing indebtedness and political instability among local leaders.
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Le récit
Overland traders from the Cape began arriving in Namibia from 1843–44. James Morris and Sidney Dixon were the first to complete the trek successfully, and the 1840s saw rapid growth in trade centred on Windhoek, the Afrikaner capital. The town was described as a crowded, bustling market throughout the year, attracting people from central, southern, and probably northern Namibia.
Trade encouraged the construction and improvement of roads. Jonker’s routes from Windhoek across the Auas Mountains toward the Cape and Walvis Bay became known as the Baaieweg, while kapteins commissioned paved routes between Bethany and Berseba and between Warmbad and Rehoboth. Ox wagons made it possible to transport large volumes of goods, linking inland settlements to coastal and Cape markets.
The network extended beyond ordinary commerce. Livestock, guano, ivory, ostrich feathers, copper, firearms, and ammunition moved through it, while merchants depended on local leaders for labour and resources. By the 1850s, trade relations had become politically destabilizing: indebted Nama-Oorlam leaders lost control over exchange, raids increased, and Herero groups used commercial connections to obtain weapons and challenge Afrikaner hegemony.
À partir de XIXᵉ siècle
Southern and central Namibia, Cape Colony, and Walvis Bay
Traduction non disponible · Original (anglais) · français indisponible
The Cape trade network expanded into southern and central Namibia during the 1840s and 1850s. Traders, missionaries, wagons, and livestock connected Windhoek, Rehoboth, Bethany, Berseba, Warmbad, Otjimbingwe, Walvis Bay, and routes toward the Cape. The network stimulated road building, migration, commercial hunting, mining, and the movement of firearms and ammunition, while also increasing indebtedness and political instability among local leaders.
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Le récit
Overland traders from the Cape began arriving in Namibia from 1843–44. James Morris and Sidney Dixon were the first to complete the trek successfully, and the 1840s saw rapid growth in trade centred on Windhoek, the Afrikaner capital. The town was described as a crowded, bustling market throughout the year, attracting people from central, southern, and probably northern Namibia.
Trade encouraged the construction and improvement of roads. Jonker’s routes from Windhoek across the Auas Mountains toward the Cape and Walvis Bay became known as the Baaieweg, while kapteins commissioned paved routes between Bethany and Berseba and between Warmbad and Rehoboth. Ox wagons made it possible to transport large volumes of goods, linking inland settlements to coastal and Cape markets.
The network extended beyond ordinary commerce. Livestock, guano, ivory, ostrich feathers, copper, firearms, and ammunition moved through it, while merchants depended on local leaders for labour and resources. By the 1850s, trade relations had become politically destabilizing: indebted Nama-Oorlam leaders lost control over exchange, raids increased, and Herero groups used commercial connections to obtain weapons and challenge Afrikaner hegemony.
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