Final answer:
The statement about A Trip to Coontown being the first black musical in 1898 is true, while the test question about the colonizationist scheme being popular among black abolitionists is false.
Step-by-step explanation:
The statement that A Trip to Coontown was the first black musical, conceived, written, produced, and directed by Bob Cole and William Johnson in 1898 is True. A Trip to Coontown is indeed considered the first full-length musical comedy written and performed by African Americans. Although In Dahomey by Bert Williams and George Walker opened in 1903 and was the first full-length, all-black musical on a major Broadway stage, it was not the first black musical. It should be noted that the development of African American Theatre was a significant step in the history of musical theatre, which has its roots in minstrel shows and vaudeville.
Musical theatre's history is long and varied, with influences including but not limited to Greek theatre, comic opera, vaudeville, and burlesque. The first production to be labeled a musical by today's standards was The Black Crook in 1866, which is now considered a musical comedy.
Regarding the test question provided, the colonizationist scheme of the early 1800s was not universally popular among black abolitionists, and therefore, the correct answer would be False.