All 5 Uses of
immigrate
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The Souls of Black Folk
- The free Negroes of the North, inspired by the mulatto immigrants from the West Indies, began to change the basis of their demands; they recognized the slavery of slaves, but insisted that they themselves were freemen, and sought assimilation and amalgamation with the nation on the same terms with other men.†
Chpt 3immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- Immigrants are heirs of the slave baron in Dougherty; and as we ride westward, by wide stretching cornfields and stubby orchards of peach and pear, we see on all sides within the circle of dark forest a Land of Canaan.†
Chpt 7
- Then they took the convicts from the plantations, but not until one of the fairest regions of the "Oakey Woods" had been ruined and ravished into a red waste, out of which only a Yankee or an immigrant could squeeze more blood from debt-cursed tenants.†
Chpt 7immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- Since then his poor relations and foreign immigrants have seized it.†
Chpt 7 *immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- Rather it has passed to those men who have come to take charge of the industrial exploitation of the New South,—the sons of poor whites fired with a new thirst for wealth and power, thrifty and avaricious Yankees, and unscrupulous immigrants.†
Chpt 9
Definitions:
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(1)
(immigrate) come to live in a new country
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, immigrate can mean that anything (such as an animal or plant) migrates into a new environment.