[Ads-l] Antedating of "Conjure Woman"

[Shapiro, Fred]

conjure woman (OED 1899)

1871 Greenville (Ohio) Journal 13 July 2/4 (Newspapers.com)

We have another addition of the Fifteenth Amendment to our Bucktown colony. ... The colony is in a prosperous condition, and is composed of one medical gentleman, one conjure woman, and some thirty mixed and unmixed.

Fred Shapiro

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