Corrected Antedating of "Afro-American"

[Joanne M. Despres]

Fred,

Are you transcribing from digitized images of the original pages, or
from transcriptions provided by Making of the Modern Economy?

Thanks,

Joanne

On 8 Sep 2005, at 9:32, Fred Shapiro wrote:

> 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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