[Ads-l] Square-Bracket Antedating of "Emancipation Proclamation"

[Shapiro, Fred]

emancipation proclamation (OED [26 Oct. 1861])

[1861 Nashville Patriot 31 Aug. 2/3 (Newspapers.com)  We say, then, that it will not do for the Government to rely upon emancipation proclamations to reduce the South to obedience.]

Fred Shapiro

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