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colonizationist

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An advocate of colonization; specifically, in United States history, one who favored colonization of emancipated slaves and free negroes, preferably in Africa, as the best remedy for the evils and dangers produced by slavery. Also colonisationist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A friend to colonization, esp. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An advocate of colonizationism.

Etymologies

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colonization +‎ -ist

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