[Ads-l] Antedating of "Jubilee" (Song)

[Shapiro, Fred]

jubilee (OED, 6., 1843)

1841 The Liberator 30 Apr. 2/1 (Newspapers.com)

As the peculiar strength and bulwark of abolitionism is truth, it must of course prevail, — and as the final, decisive, moral action must be in the South, there doubtless, will her glorious triumph be celebrated on plains for the first time rendered fertile, — plains athwart which the jubilee song shall ride as it echoes from hill to hill.

Fred Shapiro

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