Simonstown was home to the Kru people of Sierra Leone, & were contracted workers by the British & arrived in South Africa in 1838 after the end of slavery in the Cape. Contract work (cheap labour really) was a form of saving the Cape from collapse now that slavery was abolished. https://twitter.com/StephenLangtry/status/1330393851568283649

Kru people's names were changed. Some were incredibly insulting others were your regular English names like "Clarke". I hope one day the story of Simonstown and how west african migrant laborers helped keep it alive is told.

I haven't read The Lie of 1652 yet, but I suspect Patric Mellet covers this history of the Cape. Kru people who arrived in the Cape were also from Liberia.