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Example sentences for "colored person"

  • Under this provision, as under that of Virginia, it has been decided that a free colored person cannot be a witness for a white person against a colored person.

  • Thus, it has been adjudged that a free colored person cannot testify for a white person, even against a colored person.

  • It has been said that Negro boys and girls hearing of the deeds of some great man or woman have exclaimed, "Oh, well, no colored person could do that!

  • Although the Freedman's Bank caused many a colored person to shrink from any banking institution, yet some were hopeful and again began to save money.

  • They show conclusively that, in spite of many adverse conditions, it is possible for a colored person, by perseverance and honesty, to succeed in business.

  • There is one thing certain, that no colored person, except such as would reject education altogether, would be adverse to putting their child with an anti-slavery person, for educational advantages.

  • I would not have a colored person, to drag me down to hell, for all the money in the world.

  • On the frontier between the slave and free States there is a guard; no colored person can go over a ferry without a pass.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    battle against; butter rubbed; buttered pudding; colored children; colored citizens; colored eyes; colored flowers; colored folks; colored glass; colored lights; colored paper; colored people; colored person; colored population; colored satin; colored school; colored soldiers; colored troops; colored women; come short; direct examination; further resolved; morning draft; the east; through thick and thin; will introduce