In the book Black Founders: The Unknown Story of Australia's First Black Settlers, by Cassandra Pybus, there was mention of a ‘man of colour’ in the Sydney Gazette 1818 – the Black American ex-convict, William Blue...
Interesting that this phrase was in use in Australia 200 years ago.
Also this:"In the mid-nineteenth century these 'black men' were referred to by many names, but the most common racial epithet was 'men of colour' or, to distinguish them from Asians and other non-White races, 'Black Americans', 'Negroes' or 'niggers'. In Australia at least, such terms described anyone who was 'racially' African, be he from Africa, North America or the Caribbean."
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