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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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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King points out in the first of twelve chapters that Saint Domingue's free coloreds had more reason than whites to legitimate their lives by availing themselves of the costly services of notaries, for a rising tide of legally-sanctioned discrimination was attempting to regulate, among other things, what clothes they could wear, what jobs they could hold, and even what surnames they could use. As the largest population group in the region, coloreds were bombarded during the election campaign with NP advertising fomenting old fears of swart gevaar (black danger) and communism should an ANC government win. |
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