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Cape Colony

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noun

  1. the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa

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Historians estimate there were nearly 40,000 slaves in the Cape Colony when slavery ended.

From Washington Times • Oct. 20, 2023

In 1890, Rhodes became prime minister of the Cape Colony.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

At the University of Oxford, protesters have stepped up their longtime push to remove a statue of Rhodes, the Victorian imperialist who served as prime minister of the Cape Colony in southern Africa.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 11, 2020

Lady Grey was the wife of Sir George Grey, a governor of the Cape Colony in the eighteen-fifties.

From The New Yorker • May 6, 2019

After leaving the coast there come the beautiful mountain passes of the Cape Colony.

From Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer by O'Neil, Owen Rowe