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Definition of People of color

1. Noun. A race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks).

Definition of People of color

1. Noun. (plural of person of color) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of People Of Color

Literary usage of People of color

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1901)
"Yet Troup's fears were very real, and were intensified a few months later by the action of the American Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color ..."

2. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1824)
"The Sixth Annum Report of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States ; with an Appendix. Washington City, 1823. ..."

3. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America by Henry Wilson (1875)
"ADMISSION OP OREGON AND KANSAS. Oregon frames a constitution. — Excludes free people of color. — Bill for admission reported in the House. — Adverse report. ..."

4. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880: Negroes as Slaves by George Washington Williams (1883)
"FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION or THK people of color" HELD AT PHILADELPHIA. ... The First Annual Convention of the People of Color" was held in Philadelphia from ..."

5. Sinfulness of American Slavery: Proved from Its Evil Sources; Its Injustice by Charles Elliott (1851)
"EFFECTS OF SLAVERY ON THE FREE people of color IN THE UNITED STATES. 1. THE diversities of men, as to color, stature, and a variety of other circumstances, ..."

6. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"2, placed people of color, who were the former victims of the slave laws, under permanent disabilities as electors, by requiring a special qualification as ..."

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