[Ads-l] Antedating of "Negress"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Negress (OED 1734)

1670 Africa Being an Accurate Description of the Regions of AEgypt, Barbary, Lybia, [etc.] 701 (Early English Books Online)

There are some, though few, that do it not, but cause the Child to be carried afar off, and nursed by her own Negresses.

Fred Shapiro

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