[Ads-l] Antedating of "Segregate" (Racial)

[Shapiro, Fred]

segregate (OED, 1.b., 1908)

1865 New-York Daily Tribune 30 Jan. 4 (GenealogyBank)

To colonize the blacks abroad is pretty generally acknowledged as an absurdity; to attempt to segregate four millions of them at the South in colonies by themselves is a still greater one.

Fred Shapiro

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