[Ads-l] Antedating of "Black American"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Black American (OED 1818)

1812 Western Star (New York) 13 June 37 (Genealogy Bank}

The following article ... relates to the famous boxing match between Crib the white Englishman, and Molyneux the black American.

Fred Shapiro

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