[Ads-l] Antedating of "Jim Crow"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Fri May 27 00:47:15 UTC 2022


Jim Crow (OED 1832)

1828 _The Torch Light and Public Advertiser_ (Hagerstown, Md.) 14 Aug. 4/4 (Newspapers.com)  The "Jim Crow" poet and "nauseating" letter writer.

Fred Shapiro

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