Le Cap’s theater enforced strict racial segregation even among free people of color

Evidence

Racial segregation was strictly maintained in the theater, where the ten boxes at the top were reserved for free people of African descent, three for “free blacks” and the rest for “mulattos.” As a result, many mothers could not sit with their daughters. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 92

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• ADDENDUM: Sharpens the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ piece: here the segregation splinters families, with mothers denied contact with daughters.