"tree nigger" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "tree + nigger",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tree niggers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tree nigger (plural tree niggers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English ethnic slurs",
          "parents": [
            "Ethnic slurs",
            "Offensive terms",
            "Terms by usage"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1862, Supplement to the Courant, page 88",
          "text": "sacred soil contaminated by tree nigger babies",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Milwaukee Magazine Volume 19, Issues 7-12, page xlviii",
          "text": "lest the town constable see him off the reservation and chase him out of town. He was ever fearful that someone would call him a \"tree nigger\" or worse.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, John Fitzgerald, The Revenant, 31m",
          "text": "He shouldn't have fired a shot, the whole place is crawling with fucking tree niggers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Native American person"
      ],
      "id": "en-tree_nigger-en-noun-g3hAv8IL",
      "links": [
        [
          "ethnic",
          "ethnic"
        ],
        [
          "slur",
          "slur"
        ],
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "Native American",
          "Native American"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ethnic slur, derogatory, slang) A Native American person"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "prairie nigger"
        },
        {
          "word": "red nigger"
        },
        {
          "word": "redskin"
        },
        {
          "word": "timber nigger"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "ethnic",
        "slang",
        "slur"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tree nigger"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "tree + nigger",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tree niggers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tree nigger (plural tree niggers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "prairie nigger"
    },
    {
      "word": "red nigger"
    },
    {
      "word": "redskin"
    },
    {
      "word": "timber nigger"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English ethnic slurs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1862, Supplement to the Courant, page 88",
          "text": "sacred soil contaminated by tree nigger babies",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Milwaukee Magazine Volume 19, Issues 7-12, page xlviii",
          "text": "lest the town constable see him off the reservation and chase him out of town. He was ever fearful that someone would call him a \"tree nigger\" or worse.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, John Fitzgerald, The Revenant, 31m",
          "text": "He shouldn't have fired a shot, the whole place is crawling with fucking tree niggers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Native American person"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ethnic",
          "ethnic"
        ],
        [
          "slur",
          "slur"
        ],
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "Native American",
          "Native American"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ethnic slur, derogatory, slang) A Native American person"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "ethnic",
        "slang",
        "slur"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tree nigger"
}