British colonies enforced racial segregation decades before the boer republics did

Evidence

The Natal colonial administration and the boer landowners in the area reinforced their respective drives to marginalize blacks politically and socially while maximizing exploitation of their labor power. Somewhat haltingly, both the Cape and Natal colonial administrations nevertheless insisted on segregative legislation from as early as the 1850s, fully 30 to 40 years before the South African Republic and Orange Free State followed suit, even if British-sponsored segregation proved more ambivalent and less complete. In due course, though, segregation directed at blacks was extended to apply to Indians (in Natal) and Asians more generally, as all registrations of non-Europeanness came to be identified in racial fabrication to some degree as naturally or historically inferior on one index or another. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1471

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the racial-neoliberalism theme and to settler-colonial race regimes; parallels the US South’s Black Codes and Jim Crow timing.