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The Origin of Colorblindness
The earliest references to the word and the concept came from Wendell Phillips, who was the president of the American Anti-Slavery Society after William Lloyd Garrison. He used that exact phrase in many of his speeches in the 1860s. That's the oldest time I've ever read a public figure say the word colorblindness.