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Cape Colony
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Cape Colony
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(Placename) the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
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Noun1.Cape Colony - a former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded to Great Britain in 1814; in 1994 it was split into three new provinces of South Africa
Republic of South Africa, South Africa - a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers)


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London, 1897-1905), Statement of the Laws of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope regarding Slavery, 9: 146-61.
 
 
 
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