Apartheid residential segregation began as missionary-sponsored separatism in 1834

Evidence

In 1834, the year of abolition after all, the London Missionary Society – the chief anglicizing body knotting together religious conversion, civilizing enculturation, and colonial rule as the emergent racial theo-politics of the territory – founded a separate settlement for blacks outside Port Elizabeth. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1418

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that segregationist ‘locations’ grew out of missionary instigation, not settler prejudice, is striking and worth tracing further.
• ADDENDUM: Parallels ‘On Sacrifice’ in showing how ostensibly benevolent institutions can inaugurate practices later hardened into systematic exclusion.