[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Black Belt"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Black Belt (OED 1868)

1865 Cincinnati Daily Commercial 16 June 1/3 (America's Historical Newspapers)

This paradise that here blooms upon the hills of Macon — is nurtured alone by the golden dews that ascend from the cotton and rice-fields of the so-called black belt and the region of the coast.

NOTE:  Early usage of this term seems to have focused on the area of Macon, Georgia.

Fred Shapiro


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