Dear Beverly: The word "nigger" is used 214 times in the first edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This information comes from an in-house database listing every usage of every word in the first edition. The database breaks it down to "nigger" (157 times, including illustration page and contents, but not caption and page heading); "nigger-cabins" (1); "nigger-head" (1); "niggers" (49); and "nigger's" (6). If you include the caption and the page heading, the total is 216. In addition, the word appears twice in the "raft episode" as published in Life on the Mississippi. All best, Vic Fischer Mark Twain Project