HUCK, CONTINUED
COMMENTARIES about Mark Twain, following a previously-unpublished excerpt from "Huckleberry Finn" It's quite likely that if Mark Twain had merely used …
"It's quite likely that if Mark Twain had merely used the word 'slave' instead of the word 'nigger,' which appears more than two hundred times in the course of 'Huckleberry Finn,' many of those who have recently attacked the book on the ground of racism would have been at least partially appeased. But 'nigger' remains our most powerful secular blasphemy."