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amalgamationist
A blending of the two races; specifically, "whites" and "blacks".
2. Black America, the masses, are equally opposed to the integration and amalgamation of the races.
3. The drive for more and more amalgamation is, and always has been spearheaded by those "coloureds" who maintain a separatist society within the black race, and who are not, and never have been, identified with the black masses.
"Blending of the two races by amalgamation is just what is needed for the perfection of both", a white Boston clergyman wrote in 1845.
Few American abolitionists were proponents of amalgamation, but many were called amalgamationists by proslaveryites in the two decades or so before the Civil War in the U.S.
This Americanism term for anyone who favors a social and genetic mixture of whites and blacks is first recorded in 1838, when Harriet Martineau (June 12, 1802–June 27, 1876, an English writer and philosopher, renowned in her day as a controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist) complained that people were calling her an amalgamationist when she didn't even know what the word meant.
Amalgamationist quotes
1. White America is definitely and unalterably opposed to the integration and amalgamation of the two races.2. Black America, the masses, are equally opposed to the integration and amalgamation of the races.
3. The drive for more and more amalgamation is, and always has been spearheaded by those "coloureds" who maintain a separatist society within the black race, and who are not, and never have been, identified with the black masses.