Definitions
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.
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- noun An advocate of
colonizationism .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Professor Bell pointed out that Delany, like H.nry H. Garnet, had been anti-colonizationist in the 1840s.
An Exchange on Black History Breeden, James P. 1970
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Finley was in communication with Paul Cuffe, the only practical colonizationist in America.
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The colonizationist hoped, by offering to the free Negro an attractive home in Africa, to induce conscientious masters everywhere to liberate their slaves, and to give rise to a growing popular sentiment condemning slavery, which would in time result in its extinction.
History of Liberia Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science John Hanson Thomas McPherson
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The author begins with the first attack upon slavery, the early anti-slavery movement in Kentucky, the colonizationist idea, the work of the anti-slavery societies, and the efforts of the church to exterminate the evil.
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Listen a moment to the cant of the colonizationist.
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Finley was in communication with Paul Cuffe, the only practical colonizationist in America.
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I am pronouncedly, and have been since I first stepped upon the soil of my fatherland in 1878, an African colonizationist, but I am so in a strictly qualified sense, as is shown in the official statement made to my and your government -- made from the United States Consulate-General, Monrovia, under the date of February 21, 1883.
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They rejected the proposition of the Cincinnati Conference of the M.E. Church to establish, or aid in establishing, a school of a high order for colored youth, upon the ground that it seemed to be the scheme of an avowed colonizationist, *
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He is for no half-measures, -- he avows himself a free-soiler, an emancipationist, an abolitionist, a colonizationist.
The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement George Spring Merriam 1878
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Professor David Christy, the great colonizationist, said in a lecture delivered in 1855, --
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George W. Williams 1870
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