[Ads-l] Antedating of "Afro-Americanism"

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Afro-Americanism (OED 1890)

1889 Cleveland Gazette 23 Nov. 1 (Genealogy Bank)

Quaker City Afro-Americanism.  In Philadelphia, which has a colored population of about 35,000 the color line has almost entirely disappeared.

Fred Shapiro

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