[Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Americo-African"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Americo-African (OED 1826 [29 June])

1826 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, D.C.) 12 June 3/2 (Newspapers.com)

We have perused, with no slight emotion, a copy of the "Liberia Herald" ... A newspaper from Africa !  An Americo-African newspaper !

Fred Shapiro



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