... , according to the Associated Press, objected to the book's use of the word "nigger." He goes on to say that regardless of the blatant use of racial slurs and stereotypical language, "these characters belong to their place and time, which is the Mississippi Valley thirty years before Emancipation."" This statement not only includes the use of the word by African American characters in the book, but it also explains the usage of the word "negroes ... Kaplan quotes Mark Twain elaborating on growing up in a slaveholding society, saying, "Conscience can be trained to approve any wild thing y...

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