Antedating of "African-American"

[Joanne M. Despres]

A while back Jesse Sheidlower reported that the OED staff
checked an 1854 Accessible Archives passage that included the
term "African-American" and discovered that the printed text
actually read "Africo-American."  Would this have been the
quotation, Jesse?

Joanne Despres
Merriam-Webster

On 25 Jul 2005, at 10:47, Fred Shapiro wrote:

> African-American (OED 1855)
>
> 1854 _Frederick Douglass Paper_ 13 Jan. (Accessible Archives)  An Irish
> fight, and the wickedness of an Irish woman's daughter, can never be used
> as an argument against the fitness of the African American to enjoy
> freedom.
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
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