Racial mixing was not yet seen as bestial in the Cape’s first half-century

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

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the chapter’s political-theology thesis and to comparative work on how racial animalization develops. — connects to: Cultural mixing outpaced racial mixing at the colonial Cape despite policing. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1330; Severe sex-ratio imbalance drove early intimate racial mixing at the Cape — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1315