Antedating of "African-American"

[Shapiro, Fred]

African-American (OED3 1855)

1835 _Liberator_ 26 Sept. (19th Century U.S. Newspapers)  Let Christian abolition praying societies be formed, of Americans and African Americans, every where.


Fred Shapiro
Editor
YALE BOOK OF QUOTATIONS (Yale University Press)

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