Online-Only Reader’s Commentary: The Quintessential Assault: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn vs. Political Correctness and Comfort

Jocelyn Chadwick

doi:10.58680/cc201012602

ISSN: 1057-4190
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Online-Only Reader’s Commentary: The Quintessential Assault: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn vs. Political Correctness and Comfort
Author(s): Jocelyn Chadwick
Source: Council Chronicle, Volume 20, Issue 2, Nov 2010, p. 1 - 3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58680/cc201012602
- Published online: 01 Nov 2010

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NCTE Secondary Section Committee member and Twain scholar Jocelyn Chadwick crafted this essay in response to the publication of a new edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in which 219 instances of the word “nigger” are replaced by the word “slave.”

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