[Ads-l] Antedating of "Geechee" (Adjective)

[Shapiro, Fred]

Geechee (OED 1876)

1868 Daily State Register (Des Moines, Iowa) 4 Nov. 4 (GenealogyBank)

At a Geechee precinct the negroes to the number of about 1,000, armed with muskets, shot guns and pistols, took possession of the polls and allowed no democratic negroes to vote.

Fred Shapiro

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