Yet another misunderstanding...

The word by itself appears in the text and in the contents. The word counts
differ between various scholars at different times because some count only
the text and not the contents. Also, the text itself has changed since 1885
and the discovery of the long-missing half of the original ms.

The phrase "Nigger Jim" does not appear, I think, but one time, and then
only as a descriptive phrase, not as a name. The character's name is Jim,
not Nigger Jim, as so commonly supposed. This whole discussion has been here
before and lit out for the archives long ago, making it an over-ripe pick
for the FAQ proposal.

Kevin Mac Donnell
Austin TX