[Atlas Sneezed]

Negro was used by masters to separate the "Negros" from the "humans"(whites). Read the diaries of the time. The "Negro" was essentially a beast.

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So in the past they were mistreated, and now they aren't. How does that require us to adopt a new term to describe the race? I dispute that "negro" was a racial slur back then, just a term used by racists and non-racists to accurately descrbe people of a given race.

I put it in the same category as "Frenchman".

[AppyPappy]

The word you are looking for is African which is more like Frenchman. Negro was a way to separate blacks from "our race".