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Definition of People of colour
1. Noun. A race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks).
Generic synonyms: Race
Member holonyms: Person Of Color, Person Of Colour
Lexicographical Neighbors of People Of Colour
Literary usage of People of colour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"One company of troops of the line - -77 Artillery, four companies of people of
colour 400 Militia. Four companies of Whites . ..."
2. Society in America by Harriet Martineau (1837)
"CITIZENSHIP OF people of colour. Before I entered New England, while I was
ascending the Mississippi, I was told by a Boston ..."
3. The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies by Bryan Edwards (1806)
"Of the motives which induced the people of colour to join the revolted Negroes.—Conduct
of the British Association for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, ..."
4. Jamaica: Its Past and Present State by Phillippo, James Mursell (1843)
"... X. people of colour AND FREE BLACKS. Former Condition—Causes of difference of
Complexion and Circumstances—Political State—Proscription from Society of ..."
5. The Friend of Peace by Noah Worcester (1816)
"... BORROWED FROM " THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR COLONIZING THE FREE people of colour."
THE Colonization Society should be viewed with great respect. ..."
6. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1821)
"Murmurs excited in the Colonies. Murder of Mauduit. Decree of the National Assembly
for placing the People of Colour on a Footing with the Whites. ..."
7. A View of the Past and Present State of the Island of Jamaica: With Remarks by John Stewart (1823)
"THE people of colour—THEIR CHARACTER, MANNERS, AND AMUSEMENTS THEIR POLITICAL
... The people of colour may be supposed to possess the mingled natures of the ..."
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