nigger

noun. History: First used in the year 1515 by Europeans slaveholders and slave masters when ships of cargo -- comprising of kidnapped and purchased Africans -- reached the New World, the present-day Americas, including the Caribbean.

Origins: From the Latin word 'necro' meaning "dead"; From the Italian word 'nekro' meaning "dead"; translated to the English word Negro, the first form of the word 'nigger'.

Meaning: A dead, inanimate object, as slave holders, slave masters, and slave buyers perceived the Africans to be -- non-human objects that were socially, civilly, economically, spiritually, and intellectually dead.

"Those niggers are just savages and heathens, anyway."

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