Q: date for "bobalition"?

[Barnhart]

bobolition has an entry in DAE:

Obs. An alleged Negro variant of Abolition. 1818 (title) Bobolition of
slavery!!! Grand selebrashun by the Africum Shociete!!! Boston.  1819 ...
1821 ... 1839 ... 1861

Given that it has an entry also in DA with an additional and rather long
quote from 1892 (spelled _bobalition_), I would have expected it already
to be an entry in OED.  However, the age and obsolescence probably did not
impress the other OED editors from including Craigie's find.


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>Well, I have quotations from 1816, 1819, and 1822 -- all, as it
>happens, via EAN, although I looked there only after encountering
>others from 1822 (and all are from New England).  But my question was
>really aimed at why it's absent from the OED and whether it's present
>in other dictionaries.
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>Joel
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>At 6/16/2008 01:30 PM, Barnhart wrote:
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>> >I don't find "bobalition" (abolition) in the OED.  When is it dated
>> >to?  Should it be in the OED?
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>> >Joel
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>>Here is a good example of a term that benefits from "Googling".  Nexis
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>>ProQuest (two pretty standard sources) have very little.  Historic NYT
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>>nothing.  These I have just checked at home.  Googling produced
>more--569 .
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>> From an academic library there might be more sources to search.
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>>If something in the 569 is strong enough, it might go into a dictionary
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>>due course.  Some seem at first glance to support early 19th century
>>evidence.
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>>DKB
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