Dutch colonial Cape houses did not segregate white and black workers by style

Evidence

Under the Dutch, houses for the working and free classes close to the town center, white and black alike, consisted of plain whitewashed rectangular and flat-roofed buildings, their only mark of frivolity perhaps a modest gable. For the landed gentry, homes on large estates were stretched out in dazzling whitewash bedecked with ornate gabled façades and in a nod to indigenous industry expertly thatch-thick roofs. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1407

Categorization

• XREF: Contrast in residential material culture pre- and post-British rule connects to architectural-segregation scholarship on other settler colonies.