[Ads-l] Antedating of "Colored" (Noun)

[Shapiro, Fred]

colored, noun (OED 1832)

1808 Kline's Carlisle Weekly Gazette (Carlisle, Pa.) 10 June 3/3 (Newspapers.com)

(table of census data of Methodist conferences)

Members in the connection taken by the different conferences, viz. ...

                    Whites    Colored

Western Conference    15,202    795


Fred Shapiro



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