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Re: "n-word use before Paine"
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"Robert A. Dagnall" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 30 Nov 1992 10:32:19 -0700
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Donna Campbell writes that she found the epithet "Nigger Jim" in
a review of _Puddn'head Wilson_ from _The Booklover's Magazine_,
February, 1904.  This predates Paine's use of "Nigger Jim" in
his _Biography_.

I still wonder if "Nigger Jim"--that exact phrase--appears in
any of Twain's works.  Oh, for _Huckleberry Finn_ on CD-ROM, so
I could have my computer look for it in a second...

Robert Dagnall

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