"darkey" meaning in English

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          "text": "Sometimes we overhear others saying, \"Them colored people were slaves\" down in Tennessee. The children feel hurt when they hear such remarks; but I tell them it was no disgrace in Tennessee to belong to Colonel Anderson. Many darkeys would have been proud, as I used to be, to call you master."
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