Corrected Antedating of "Afro-American"

[Fred Shapiro]

In my earlier post I mistyped the key term.  Here is the correct
antedating:

> Afro-American (OED 1853)
>
> 1833 Hodgkin, Thomas. An inquiry into the merits of the American
> Colonization Society : and a reply to the charges brought against it 30
> (Making of the Modern Economy)  The benevolent Margaret Mercer; who has
> not only given up her patrimony in slaves, prepared them for colonization,
> and sent them to Liberia, but devotes her life to the arduous profession
> of schoolmistress, and her mansion to the purpose of a school, in order to
> increase her means of benefitting the Afro-American People of Colour.

Fred Shapiro


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