coloniˈzationist
[f. colonization + -ist.]
An adherent or advocate of colonization: spec. in U.S. Hist. An advocate of the colonization of Africa by emancipated slaves and free Negroes from America, as a solution of the slavery question there.
| 1831 W. L. Garrison in Life (1885) I. 261, I am truly rejoiced to learn that you are no colonizationist. 1834 Southern Lit. Messenger I. 87 Tappan has two brothers in Boston, both ardent colonizationists. 1837 H. Martineau Soc. Amer. II. 132 He is a colonisationist, and desires that the general government should purchase the slaves..and ship them off to Africa. 1850 Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xv. 133 The doctor..was a staunch colonisationist. 1852 Fraser's Mag. XLVI. 525. |