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Coloured
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Coloured
1. an individual who is not a White person, esp a Black person
2. (in South Africa) a person of racially mixed parentage or descent
3. designating or relating to a Coloured person or Coloured people


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But apartheid took an especially pernicious form in 1950 when the ruling Afrikaners, descendants of the original Dutch settlers, began passing laws forcing blacks and coloureds (people of mixed race) to live and work in restricted areas, and barred them from owning land outside those areas.
Coloureds dominated the freedmen population as coloured slaves were more often than black slaves granted manumission or given freedom after their master's death in recognition of paternity or special services.
The biggest challenge for Canadians, he said, is how they will face up to this past, since most non-Natives aren't forced to deal with Natives on a daily basis, the way whites, blacks and coloureds have to in South Africa.
 
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