[Ads-l] Antedating of "Abolitionist"

[George Thompson]

"testimony of this *fort*."

The "long s" is at play here.

GAT

On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 9:26 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> abolitionist (OED 1791)
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> 1789 Robert Norris A Short Account of the African Slave-Trade 37 (Google
> Books)
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> The abolitionists very artfully endeavor to put aside every testimony of
> this fort.
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> 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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