In eighteenth-century Cape, race was defined religiously as the space between human and animal

Evidence

The deepest defining distinction well into the eighteenth century continued to be religiously prompted, that is, between the God-fearing and the heathen. Heathen was taken polygenically to occupy the categorical space between human and animal, marking out as pre-Adamite the non-Christian, and so the non-European, from the children of Adam, on one side, and the animal kingdom on the other. Race was still religiously delineated and defined. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1360

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the pre-Adamite, polygenic categorization that placed non-Christians between human and animal.
• ADDENDUM: Connects to the immodesty article’s theme of religion as primary identity marker before class/politics redefined it.