The first European settlement at the Cape was a fortress against natives

Evidence

The fear of native hostility meant that the first act of settlement was a gated community, a fortress for housing the fearless settlers. Towning, and later urbanization, subsequently (one could even say consequently) more or less inevitably were to follow. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1312 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fear of the native other shaped even the first colonial settlement as gated — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1312; The first European settlement in the Americas quickly collapsed into violence with indigenous peoples; Fear of native hostility drove the first settler structures into fortress-gated forms. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1312 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Fear of native hostility drove the first settler structures into fortress-gated forms. #expands (0.93) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1312