colonizationistn.adj.
/ˌkɒlənʌɪˈzeɪʃn̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˌkɑlənəˈzeɪʃənəst/, /ˌkɑləˌnaɪˈzeɪʃənəst/ Now historical.
A. n.
A supporter or advocate of colonization; esp. a proponent of the resettlement of emancipated slaves and free black people from America in colonies in Africa or elsewhere (historical in later use).Especially common in the 1830s.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun]
peopler1566
planter1587
plantator1632
colonist1658
populator1664
storer1690
settler1696
white settler1754
plantationite1756
colonizer1766
colonizationist1823
colon1860
homesteader1870
plantationer1888
society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > principles or policies > adherents or supporters of
well-born1629
liberty boy1766
federalist1787
anti1788
Fed1788
monocrat1792
anti-federal1805
blue light1814
dough face1820
colonizationist1823
slavite1831
hunker1849
states' righter1861
slavist1889
Little American1899
New Frontiersman1923
America Firster1927
new federalist1969
angry white male1991
angry white man1993
AWM1994
1823 Oriental Mag. July 39 Into this overflowing population..would the Colonizationist introduce at one ‘30,000 families from England’!
1831 Liberator (Boston) 12 Feb. 25/3 In proportion as they become Colonizationists, they become less active and less friendly to our welfare as citizens of the United States.
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. 132 He is a colonisationist, and desires that the general government should purchase the slaves..and ship them off to Africa.
1852 Fraser's Mag. 46 525 Mrs. Stowe..has seen masters and slaves at home, New Orleans markets, fugitives, free coloured people, pro-slavery politicians and priests, abolitionists and colonizationists.
1907 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 20 July 6/3 In the old days, when the institution of African Slavery began to be subjected to serious question, there were many voices: the Colonizationist, the Emancipationist, the Free-soiler and the Abolitionist pure and simple.
1948 Negro Hist. Bull. 12 45/1 Martin R. Delany [was] an annalist recording the significant achievements of the Negro and a colonizationist seeking other shores than Africa.
2016 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 1 May Some colonizationists seemed more interested in ridding the country of free blacks than ending slavery or improving the black condition.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or characterized by colonization; esp. advocating or relating to the resettlement of emancipated slaves and free black people from America in colonies in Africa or elsewhere (historical in later use).
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1900 Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) 9 Feb. 1/2 Arrangements for one of the biggest colonizationist schemes ever engineered in the west have been completed here, where a portion of the Big Horn basin in northern Wyoming will be settled by Mormons.
1921 J. M. Wright Free Negro in Maryland x. 296 in Stud. Hist., Econ. & Public Law 97 686 [At ‘an assembly of colored delegates’ in 1852] The platform committee recommended resolutions which embodied much of the colonizationist argument. They did not counsel emigration for every free negro resident, but would have had each one accustom himself to the thought of ultimately leaving the state.
2010 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 Nov. 12/4 Lincoln did not get the chance to continue the trajectory that had propelled him from the gradualist and colonizationist limitations of his antislavery convictions of earlier years toward the immediatist and egalitarian policies he was approaching by 1865.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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