Antedating of "Racial"

[Fred Shapiro]

racial (OED 1862)

1855 _Scottish Review_ July 262 (Periodicals Archive Online)  The
minstrels were ... the historians of their people.  They recited the deeds
of warriors, awakening racial antipathies, and stirring in each bosom the
fire of patriotism.

Fred Shapiro


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