Many Boers, especially those involved with grain and wine production, were dependent on slave labour; for example, 94% of all white farmers in the vicinity of Stellenbosch owned slaves at the time, and the size of their slave holdings correlated greatly to their production output.
許多布爾人，尤其是那些從事糧食和葡萄酒生產的人，都依賴奴隸勞動；例如當時在斯泰倫博斯附近的94％白人農民擁有奴隸，他們的奴隸規模大小與他們的產量息息相關。