[Ads-l] Antedating of "Colonization" (Scheme for Resettlement of Free American Blacks in Africa)

[Shapiro, Fred]

I am not sure whether this term belongs in ODAAE.

colonization (OED, 2., 1816 [31 Dec.])

1816 Evangelical Repository 1 Dec, 20 (ProQuest)

The Colonization of the free negroes, in Africa, opens a prospect of the dissemination of the Christian religion among the natives of that continent ...there will be a time to free the United States from the Curse of Slavery.

Fred Shapiro

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