The Dutch border hedge was property enclosure, not an apartheid prototype

Evidence

Seven years into settlement, the Dutch tried to build a border hedge separating themselves from what Van Riebeeck had characterized as the “brutal,” “wild,” “thievish,” and untrustworthy Khoikhoi, more an act of Lockean property enclosure than an early prototype of apartheid, as some have suggested. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1316

Categorization

• QUESTION: The hedge as Lockean enclosure vs. proto-apartheid framing — worth chasing the historiographical debate this engages.