[Ads-l] Antedating of "Colored" (Of or Belonging to African Americans)

[Shapiro, Fred]

colored, adj. (OED, 3.c., 1821)

1819 Maryland Gazette and Political Intelligencer 27 May 3/1 (Newspapers.com)

Female Coloured School.  This is a distinct school, in a separate room of the same building, under the charge of the same directors and superintendents, consisting of upwards of twenty children and adults.

Fred Shapiro

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