Antedating of "Person of Color"

[Fred Shapiro]

person of color (OED, s.v. color, 1796)

1781 Fowler, John. A general account of the calamities occasioned by the
late tremendous hurricanes and earthquakes in the West-India Islands 29
(Making of the Modern Economy)  Fourteen or fifteen people of colour were
buried in a store that fell in upon them.

Fred Shapiro


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