Colonizationists and slaveholders, and many northern divines, solemnly affirm, that the situation of a slave is far preferable to that of a free negro; hence it would seem an act of humanity to convert the latter into the former.
In the next place, many of the Colonizationists (I do not suppose it applies to all) are averse to giving the blacks a good education; and they are not friendly to the establishment of schools and colleges for that purpose.
Too much space is devoted to the task of unifying the widely different views of the colonizationists, too much effort is made to contrast the methods of the colonizationists with those of the abolitionists.
He then showed the possibility of error in accepting as evidence the opinions of the proslavery element about the antislavery element, the opinions of the abolitionists about the colonizationists and vice versa.
Attention is next directed to the conflict between the colonizationists and the abolitionists.
This would put the colonizationists in the position of increasing the intelligent element of the colored population, which was then regarded as a menace to slavery.
By this argument some colonizationists were induced to do more for the general education of the free blacks than they had considered it wise to do during the time of the bold attempts at servile insurrection.
The colonizationists had learned from experience in educating Negroes that it was necessary to begin with the youth.
Thereafter the colonizationists found it advisable to restrict their efforts to individual cases.
Most southern colonizationists accepted this plan but felt that those permanently attached to this country should be kept in ignorance; for if they were enlightened, they would either be freed or exterminated.
More important factors than the colonizationistswere the free people of color.
Their opportunities for better instruction were offered mainly by the colonizationists and abolitionists.
No such protests were made by the citizens of New Haven, however, when the colonizationists were planning to establish there a mission school to prepare Negroes to leave the country.
One finds it difficult to explain how the colonizationists could argue that one of their objects was to remove a dangerous element from our population and at the same time take civilization and Christianity to Africa.
On this date the colonizationists met in Davis's Hotel, Henry Clay again presiding.
It requires little effort to appreciate the weight of this Ex-President's opinion, and colonizationists later gave wide publicity to it in order to strengthen their cause.
They were disposed to beColonizationists rather than Abolitionists.
The Colonizationists aim only to get rid of the slaves so soon as they become free.
In view of this alarm aroused by the so-called Negro invasion the Ohio colonizationists availed themselves of the opportunity to set forth their plan as the only solution of the problem.
A public meeting of colored citizens of New York, with Samuel Ennals and Philip Bell as promoters, referred to the Colonizationists as men of "mistaken views" with respect to the welfare and wishes of the colored people.
They not only demonstrated their unalterable opposition but expressed a firm resolve to resist the colonizationists even down to death.
I know that colonizationists regard slavery as an evil; but an evil which has been entailed upon this land, for the existence of which we are no more to blame than for the prevalence of plague or famine.
Do colonizationists mean, that slave-dealers shall purchase or sell a few victims less this year than they did the last?
Nay, these apologies of colonizationists represent oppression not merely as innocent, but even commendable--as a system of benevolence, upheld by philanthropists and sages!
Do colonizationists mean that the practice of separating the husband from the wife, the wife from the husband, or children from their parents, shall come to an end by an almost imperceptible process?
Colonizationists generally agree in asserting that the people of color cannot be elevated in this country, nor be admitted to equal privileges with the whites.
Colonizationists strenuously contend that our colored population are destined always to remain a degraded class in this country.
Colonizationists boast inordinately of having emancipated three or four hundred slaves by their scheme, and contemptuously inquire of abolitionists, 'What have you effected?
And this is the mode of colonizationiststo evangelize Africa!
I know the covert behind which colonizationists take refuge.
Colonizationists must define, moreover, the exact shade of color which is to retain or banish individuals; for every candid mind will admit, that it would be as unnatural to send white blood to Africa, as to keep black blood in America.
Methinks colonizationists think they have a set of brutes to deal with, sure enough.
Do the colonizationists think to send us off without first being reconciled to us?
Colonizationists speak of America being first colonized, but is there any comparison between the two?
The African colonizationists proceeded on the basis that the Negroes had no chance for racial development in this country.
In view of these facts, the colonizationists had to redouble their efforts to defend their cause.
Many thinkers controlling public opinion then gave audience to the colonizationists and circles once closed to them were thereafter opened.
The colonizationists could do no more than to express doubt that the Negroes would have there the opportunities for mental, moral and social betterment which were offered in Liberia.
Determined to interest a larger number of persons in diverting the attention of the free Negroes from the West Indies, the colonizationists took higher ground.
What an immensity of good have the emancipationists of the South, as they wish to be called, of the colonizationists as they ought to be called, done during their fifty years labor, when this is yet left for the Rev.
How very different a course did the Colonizationistspursue towards the Anti-Slavery Society.
Emancipationists they wished to be called; colonizationists they ought to be called.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colonizationists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
