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• n  (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people

• To start with, says Bennett, Lincoln was a crude bigot who habitually used the N word and had an unquenchable thirst for blackface-minstrel shows and demeaning "darky" jokes.
• Joe Louis is, of course, a Negro but not a darky.
• Depressing description of the private lives of some Georgia Negroes, written in an un-nerving combination of literate English and darky dialect.

• darkie
• darkey

Quotes

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• Margaret Mitchell in Scotsman
  Thus does McCaig try to rehabilitate Butler who, Mitchell told us, had been arrested for killing "this darky who had insulted a white woman". "What else could a Southern gentleman do?"