[f. prec. + -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.
1837. Ht. 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.
1852. Mrs. Stowe, Uncle Tom’s C., I. xv. 228. The doctor … was a stanch colonizationist.
1852. Fraser’s Mag., XLVI. 525.
