... we read the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, we tend to cringe at the very use of "the n word," as it is uses frequently in the book, much different than the people of the South during the 19th century, who's daily vocabulary contained the word nigger, using it to describe a black [sub ... about the repulsiveness of the South and it's people. The most powerful and blatant attack against the South in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is found in chapter twenty-two, as a Southern Mob comes storming up to Colonel Sherburn's house, with all intentions to lynch him, after he had shot a town ...

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