r dates to 1574. In the dictionary it says the word nigger is Latin meaning for black. It shares this common root with negro. The first recorded use of the word nigger was in 1786 in a poem by Robert Burns. The offensiveness of the term has increased over time, especially in the 20th & 21st century. A quote from the1600's that are commonly cited in dictionaries are from scholarly tracts. A 1700's quote by judge Samuel Sewall uses the term in a denunciation of slavery. Gradually, however, polite discourse increasingly used the term negro (which date
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