Sentence:  Within a few months the ‘slave Alexandre' had been successfully transformed into what, across the Channel, was called a ‘blackamoor dandy'. Parisians preferred the more politely euphemistic term ‘<WSD>American</WSD>'. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An indigenous inhabitant of the Americas; a Native American or an American Indian (now chiefly with qualifying word). (from 16th c.)