Every so often, the debate of the use of the word “nigger” in Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn is brought to the table. Normally, when it is being reprinted, the tug of war debate begins of whether they should or shouldn’t reprint it with “nigger” being used in reference to the runaway slave that travels with Huck, Jim. Throughout the novel, he is called “Nigger Jim,” to set the precedent of how the antebellum south was and how...
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