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Re: "Nigger Jim" -- the name controversy revisited
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Michael Patrick Hearn <[log in to unmask]>
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Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:15:13 -0700
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Paine did not originate the name "Nigger Jim," but he
commonly used it and consequently the character is
often called that.  Twain did not call him "Nigger
Jim" in the novel.

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