dating phrases

[Robert S. Wachal]

So then the question becomes When was it resuscitated?  --Wachal

At 11:08 AM 2/4/01 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Laurence Horn wrote:
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>> The Yale library put on an exhibit connected with the release of
>> Spielberg's Amistad movie several years ago, and among the large
>> number of documents on display was a letter thanking someone (maybe
>> John Quincy Adams) for their role on behalf of "persons of color".
>> This must have been written in 1842 or 1843.  I did transcribe the
>> relevant information--date, identity of writer and recipient,
>> etc.--but the relevant slip is in one my post-office-renovation boxes.
>>
>> Depending on what others turn up here, "person/people of color" may
>> well be another candidate for the "dead-words-resuscitated" list.
>
>The OED has citations for "of colour" going back to 1796, although the
>early quotations may have a slightly different meaning from the
>contemporary one.
>
>Fred Shapiro
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