Meaning of Negro | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person of black African ancestry.
   dated, offensive
2. Alternative letter-case form of negro.
   alt-of, dated, offensive, usually
3. A surname.
4. A slave, especially one of African ancestry.
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“The negroes believe that its presence has a sanitary effect upon their cattle […]”

“What Peter said was true but she hated to hear it from a negro and a family negro, too. Not to stand high in the opinion of one's servants was a humiliating a thing as could happen to a Southerner.”

“There were two negros who were guilty of thieving; he went and had them both shot, and gave notice that he would put all to death who kept disturbing the property of the white people, and kept confusion in their land.”

“His parents had always said that the area he grew up in had been a nice place to live before 'those Negros invaded'.”

“We don't want your Negroes, or your horses, or your lands, or any thing you have, but we do want and will have a just obedience to the laws of the United States. That we will have, and if it involved the destruction of your improvements, we cannot help it.”

“The rickets were sold to sex-starved who had weird ideas about Negro women.”

“1963, Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom, and something without has reminded him that it can be gained.”

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