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GENADENDAL - When slavery formally ended in the Cape Colony in 1838, more than 1,000 slaves fled to Genadendal seeking refuge.

More than 150 years later, President Nelson Mandela honored the hamlet set among lush mountains by renaming the official presidential residence in Cape Town after the small town about two hours east of the city.

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