"darkie" meaning in English

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          "word": "choke a darkie"
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          "ref": "1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 22, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:",
          "text": "In an intolerable sweetness, a contentment so deep that he was wistfully discontented, he saw magnolias by moonlight and heard plantation darkies crooning to the banjo.",
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          "ref": "1964 [1957], Colin MacInnes, City of Spades, London: Penguin Books, page 22:",
          "text": "My Dad has taught me that in England some foolish man may call me sambo, darkie, boot or munt or nigger, even.",
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