[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "African American"

[Shapiro, Fred]

I think I have not yet posted the original antedating citation for "African American."

African-American (OED 1835)

1782 _A Sermon on the Capture of Lord Cornwallis_  (title page) By an _African American_.  _Id._ iii  That you may enjoy every blessing in again going forth in the public service; and that the ruler of the universe may crown with success the cause of freedom, and speedily relieve your bleeding country, is the hearty wish of an African American.

Fred Shapiro
Editor
YALE BOOK OF QUOTATIONS (Yale University Press)




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