Huck Finn Mailbag

Studio 360

On last week’s show Kurt talked to Alan Gribben, the Twain scholar who, in a new edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, replaces all instances of the word “nigger” with “slave”. Their conversation generated a lot of response from listeners, and this week Kurt reads a few of the comments.

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