Mixed-race status in the Cape legally presumed debasement and enabled indenture

Evidence

In the first 50 years or so of settlement, intercourse with those considered racially inferior was not yet quite so deeply taken to fly in the face of nature, to be procreating with animals, as it would be by the mideighteenth century. Slaves were soon imported by the Dutch, first from Angola and West Africa, later from South Asia. The enslaveable were visibly different, to be sure, not European, not or not fully Christian but not yet regarded as inor pre-human, perennially or inevitably lower inhabitants of the hierarchy of being. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1323 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Smithsonian anthropometry manufactured mixed-blood status to legalize land sales — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 609; Imported European racial views rationalized white control at the Cape — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1353; Race-ethnicity distinctions legally include and exclude colonized populations simultaneously — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 42 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Early Cape racial hierarchy existed without a race-based governing rationality #complicates (0.80)
• Racial mixing was not yet seen as bestial in the Cape’s first half-century #complicates (0.76) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1323