[Ads-l] underground railroad antedating

Bill Mullins amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM
Wed Sep 13 19:26:27 UTC 2023


The OED has 1845.

An article in the Sep 11 2023 New York Times dates it to Aug 10 1842.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/opinion/man-who-named-underground-railroad.html

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