[Ads-l] Plea for Assistance

[Shapiro, Fred]

Thanks to James for helping with this request.  But Google Books serials are usually misdated and it is clear even from the tiny snippet that this is a much later occurrence.

Fred Shapiro


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Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2025 11:31 AM
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Subject: Re: Plea for Assistance

On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 at 19:49:40 Zone+0000  "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:" 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?"
Google Books has a problematic citation, dated 1845, but it is a snippet view only and Google Books will not reveal the front matter to check the date.
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Annual Report of the School Committee.... - Page

51
Fitchburg (Mass.). School Committee · 1845
<quote>  "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"  (Negro Spiritual) <end quote>
The original which was digitized by Google Books is at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Have fun trying to check the date!
James Landau
jjjrlandau at netscape.com


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