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Example sentences for "colored persons"

  • It was expected that Anti-Slavery, according to its professions, would extend to colored persons, as far as in the power of its adherents, those advantages nowhere else to be obtained among white men.

  • Mr. President, this is not the only bill on the Calendar which concerns the rights of colored persons.

  • Colored persons, unwilling to see their race sacrificed, will make a stand against an ill-omened measure.

  • These advantages are enjoyed by the children of colored persons; and here is a comparison which shows the degradation of the Slave States.

  • Some might do so possibly for a brief time, just as for a brief time white persons refused to enter the street cars when they were opened to colored persons.

  • In the face of this report, the exclusion of colored persons continued, often attended by intolerable outrage.

  • It is this: the rights of colored persons must be placed under the protection of positive statute, warning their oppressors against continued outrage.

  • This effort to secure recognition of colored persons on juries was suggested by the ancient jury de Medietate Linguæ, first given by the statute of 28th Edward III.

  • Since writing this tribute to an heroic spirit, I have received a journal from Baltimore, published by colored persons, which contains his best eulogy.

  • There is no prohibition against the education of Colored persons; but there being no mention of them, is evidence that they were purposely omitted.

  • These few instances will suffice to illustrate the secret enterprises conducted by colored persons on both sides of the sectional line once dividing the North from the South.

  • But in a note it is stated, 'there are about 8,000 colored persons in Western Canada.

  • The Senator from Maryland invoked the Dred Scott decision as a reason why Congress should not recognize colored persons as citizens.

  • Crime, even against white persons in the presence of colored persons, must go unpunished.

  • All the foregoing provisions apply to negroes or colored persons of both sexes.

  • No public meetings or congregations of negroes or colored persons shall be allowed within the limits of the town of Franklin, under any circumstances or for any purpose, without the permission of the mayor.

  • There is scarcely any line of business which is not either shared or engrossed by colored persons, if we except that of barber.

  • What is usually denominated crime in the old countries, is by no means frequent among the blacks or colored persons.

  • The market, which is the largest and best in the West Indies, is almost entirely supplied and attended by colored persons, mostly females.

  • We have been informed here by a letter (purporting to be written by a Mr. Stover), that the Canada Company actually refuses to sell land to colored persons; and that they are anxious to buy out the colored settlers at Wilberforce.

  • Several of the States exclude the testimony of colored persons.

  • Colored persons may be chosen to office, and I cannot doubt that we shall soon welcome colored Senators and Representatives to the National Capitol.

  • It is not enough to tell me, that, under the actual law, colored persons may be designated.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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