词汇 | amalgamationist |
词源 | amalgamationist. “Blending of the two races by amalgama- tion 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 amal- gamationists by proslaveryites in the two decades or so before the Civil War. This Americanism for one who favors a social and genetic mixture of whites and blacks is first recorded in 1838, when Harriet Martineau complained that people were calling her an amalgamationist when she didn’t know what the word meant. |
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