SIENONIMUS: I'd rather be called a SLAVE than a Nigger.

SIENONIMUS: I'd rather be called a SLAVE than a Nigger.

I'd rather be called a SLAVE than a Nigger.

"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" angered respectable people when it came out and still stirs a fuss 126 years later. Twain's most famous novel has been paired with "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" in a volume to be published next month by New South Books that replaces the "N-word" — an offensive but often-used expression in the 1880s — with "slave."

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