[Ads-l] Antedating of "Main Man"

[Shapiro, Fred]

main man (OED 1956)

1925 Howard W. Odom The Negro and His Songs (ProQuest)

(song)  Looked Down De Road ... If my kind man quit me, my main man throw me down, I goin' run to de river, jump overboard 'n' drown.

Fred Shapiro

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