This comprehensive study for general readers and history buffs functions as the sequel to the author's Early Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope. Much of the book is based on primary sources, including detailed accounts by first-hand observers. It is not intended as a history of slavery at the Cape during the Dutch colonial period; instead, it is a description of the world of white slave owners in which the African slaves lived, worked, and died. As far as available records allow, emphasis is on the lives of slaves. The book also provides summary information on slavery elsewhere in the world of the Dutch East India Company and in the Dutch colonies of the Caribbean. The account begins in the year that the Cape officially recognized slave labor and ends with the occupation of the Cape by the British. B&w historical illustrations depict the shocking violence of the period. Distributed in the US by International Publishers Marketing. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)