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Do you think Mark Twain is guilty of being rascist in his book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?Why?

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Do you think Mark Twain is guilty of being rascist in his book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?Why?

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If you had read ‘Huckleberry Finn” well, you would have noticed that “N-word” Jim is the smartest, most compassionate character in the book. In the beginning, Tom and Huck want to turn him in as an escaped slave (which everyone in Hannibal would have considered the moral thing to do, because Jim was stealing himself), but later they help him get away. The word “n-word” was not a slur when Twain wrote the book in the 1870’s. It was simply the way that Southerners pronounced the word ‘Negro’, which was used by educated people rather than the words ‘slave’ or ‘black’, which were used as insults. “N-word” became an insult beginning with the resurrection of the KKK after the film “Birth of a Nation” (in which the nation born was the Invisible Empire of the Ku Klux Klan) around 1919. Mark Twain deserted an irregular Confederate division after a month or so in 1860 and ‘lit out for the territories’. He and his brother Orion, (pronounced OH-ri on) decided that the Civil War was a waste of time

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