[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Race Man"

[Shapiro, Fred]

race man (OED 1896)

1879 Boston Evening Transcript 4 Oct. 8/1 (Newspapers.com)

We were in the tonsorial establishment of an American citizen of African descent, the other day, when there presently entered another American citizen, likewise of African descent, having with him his little boy.  Raising his razor from the face that it had been scarifying, said the barber to his raceman, "What d' ye want, sah ?"

Fred Shapiro

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