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Huck Finn and the “N Word”

January 7, 2011 Whitney books 6 Comments
Huck Finn and the “N Word”

Has anyone read or heard about publishers editing Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn by omitting the “N Word” changing the derogatory slang to Slaves?  The reason being that because the novel is on so many school’s banned books list that this change will allow more students to read it.  I understand that the saying puts us […]

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