The administration finally sent a naval vessel to return the 368 survivors to the United States in 1864. This ended official efforts to colonize blacks.
settle as colonists or establish a colony (in); "The British colonized the East Coast" settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world; "Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century
colo·nize colonizes colonizing colonized in BRIT, also use colonise1. If people colonize a foreign country, they go to live there and take control of it. The first British attempt to colonize Ireland was in the twelfth century For more than 400 years, we were a colonized people