Example Sentences

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The writer is unquestionably entitled to the credit of being a thorough-going colonizationist.

From Thoughts on African Colonization by Garrison, William Lloyd

I have noted the struggle between abolitionist and colonizationist, and have received some impressions, as a distant spectator, which could never have occurred to me as a participator.

From Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Finley was in communication with Paul Cuffe, the only practical colonizationist in America.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various

He is for no half-measures,—he avows himself a free-soiler, an emancipationist, an abolitionist, a colonizationist.

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring

In popular parlance, however, Lincoln is not a colonizationist.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 by Various