[Ads-l] Plea for Assistance

[Stephen Goranson]

Unless I missed something, nothing  earlier in AHN.
Stephen
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From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
Sent: Monday, January 6, 2025 2:49 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Subject: Plea for Assistance

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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