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colonization

/kŏl′ə-nĭ-zā′shən/

殖民化,殖民地化,殖民,殖民统治

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  • In that spirit, he originally favored colonization, that is, sending blacks back to Africa.

  • Historians have their own theories, involving trade and colonization, but this sounds more likely.

  • Behind the Iron Curtain, Manea had the opportunity to observe this colonization of sorts at close quarters.

  • So white Americans came up with an alternative: colonization.

  • By the 1830s, it became clear that colonization was not a viable solution.

  • But why deem any argument necessary to show the unrighteousness of colonization?

  • Bushrod Washington, a nephew of George Washington, served as one of the presidents of this national colonization society.

  • One thing we do know, that he left the Colonization Society, because he could not conscientiously subscribe to its measures.

  • We dismiss it without further comment—and with it Colonization in toto—and Mr. Birney de facto.

  • Roman colonization resembled, far less than that of the Greeks, the original settlements of this country.