[Ads-l] Plea for Assistance

[George Thompson]

AHN has only September 11, 1858,  from the Weekly Wisconsin Patriot.

Until I searched for negro NEAR13 spirituals, which gave me August 31,
1858, from the Charleston Mercury.  And it's the exact phrase, too.

I tried substituting colored, black, african and nigger for negro and came
up with nothing.

GAT


On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> As of January 1, I am now retired from my position at Yale University.  I
> am in the process of working out an arrangement whereby I will still have
> access to licensed databases, but that has not yet been implemented.
> Therefore I am coming to the list hoping someone can do a search for me.
> Is someone at an institution with full access to America's Historical
> Newspapers (or access to GenealogyBank if that has everything in AHN)
> willing to search for me to see if there are any occurrences of the phrase
> "Negro spiritual" earlier than August 30, 1858?
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
>
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-- 
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)

https://heritagecollections.parliament.uk/collections/getrecord/HOP_WOA_3851

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