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Enslaved Malagasy captives on the Dutch East India Company slave ship Meermin began a mutiny that led to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-day South Africa and the recapture of the instigators.
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Ethnic groups from Madagascar
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1766 revolt on a slave ship
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Cape Agulhas
Headland in the Western Cape, South Africa
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