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单词 americo-african
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Americo-African
Americo-African adj. and n.
Brit. /əˌmɛrᵻkəʊˈafrᵻk(ə)n/
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U.S. /əˌmɛrəkoʊˈæfrəkən/
(a) adj. of or relating to both America and Africa; (also) of or relating to African Americans (originally and chiefly in the context of the resettlement of freed American slaves in Africa during the 19th cent.); (b) n. a freed American slave resettled in Africa (now historical); (also) a descendant of such a person (cf. Americo-Liberian n. at sense 3).
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1826 Wilmingtonian & Delaware Advertiser 29 June 4/4 The Liberia Herald. A newspaper from Africa! An Americo-African newspaper!
1828 Missionary Reg. (Church Missionary Soc.) 452/1 Our American Brethren begin to anticipate the colonizing of the whole South-Western Coast of the African Continent by Americo-Africans.
1832 Christian Examiner & Gen. Rev. Nov. 201 It is perhaps proper, while speaking of the history of Americo-African colonization, to say, that it originated in the legislature of Virginia.
1839 Southern Lit. Messenger June 382/1 The alternatives may at last be the dissolution of the union, the retention of slavery, or the utter extermination of the Americo-African race.
1904 J. F. Hurst Hist. Methodism VII. viii. ii. 576 The state [sc. Liberia] contains some 25,000 Americo-Africans.
2000 Africa News (Nexis) 26 Aug. Another aspect of Americo-African relations that has revved up is the status of Africans in the Diaspora.
2006 F. J. Koppa Encycl. Mod. Dictators 76 He had no known political affiliations but resented the Americo-Africans, the descendants of African American slaves who controlled the country.
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