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 would they have called them "niggers" in the golden age of piracy, or something else?

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 Africans 
Which come from Africa

No such thing as " AMERICAN AFRICAN"
They are Africans in America 
 YAAAARGH THERE BE NIGGERS 
 I just really want to know if Black Beard ever said the N word 
 Blackamoors. 
 Nigger was a term used by slavers and slave owners. Pirates would probably have called the blacks or negros (the Fr*nch word for blacks), maybe even negras (Spanish). The term nigger was a bastardization of those words and "niggard", which means bad host, so pirates wouldn't have the concept of that word 
 en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blackguard 
 Dunno but someone did a voice over parody of a pirate themed board game commercial where the skull wouldn't stop calling the token black kid a nigger. 
 Blackamoor is ye olde Nigger 
 Anyone got that clip of Emily Youcis dressed up as a pirate and says, "And remember kids, when you say the n-word, always use a hard AAAARRRRRRRHHHHHH!"