[Ads-l] "Negro Problem" (Not in OED)

[Shapiro, Fred]

Negro problem (Not in OED)

1856 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 14 Aug. 1/5 (Newspapers.com)

The model Republic is squandering its vital forces on the negro problem, while it has grown oblivious to the interests of twenty-five million Anglo-Saxons.

Fred Shapiro

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