[Ads-l] Antedating of "Emancipation" (From Slavery)

[Shapiro, Fred]

emancipation (OED, 3., 1778)

1774 Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet 8 Aug. 2/3 (America's Historical Newspapers)

I am unacquainted with the general law of emancipation in the southern and western colonies.

Fred Shapiro

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