negro

negro
   obsolete
   a slave
   Rawson (1981) tells us that negro quarter was recorded in 1734 and, as ever, gives an erudite exposition of the usage:
    I'll be no man's negro. I will be no man's slave. (Grose, 1811 — his headword is negroe)
   For nearly 300 years the word negro, a black person, has been in and out of fashion, sometimes being used as a euphemism for the taboo nigger. It is now definitely out.

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