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In 1848, when traveling through Northern Ohio, he was mobbed, it being circulated that he was an abolitionist and amalgamationist.
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One of the wicked and foolish stories told concerning him was, that he was an amalgamationist, and had a colored woman for his wife.
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I would suspect on very slight grounds that he was an amalgamationist and had some notion of taking a negro wife.
Lenoir Family. Lenoir Family Papers. Personal Correspondence, 1861-1865. Lenoir Family 1865
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Jack for driver, by whose side old Tom was placed; while the lady's maid took her seat by her single-minded master with a freedom from which an amalgamationist would have drawn the most pleasing inferences.
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Myer, the Flash claimed, was a "practical amalgamationist" because of his alleged affinity for sex with women of color.
Dealbreaker 2009
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If any preacher should advocate the doctrine that colored and white members ought to kneel at the same altar side by side, and together thus partake of bread and wine in commemoration of the Saviour's death, and attempt to carry his doctrine into practice, he would grossly insult the white members, he would be denounced as an amalgamationist, he would have to leave for a free State, and would, perhaps, receive a rebuke from his superior in office for his impertinence.
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