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Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:15:13 -0700
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Re: "Nigger Jim" -- the name controversy revisited
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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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