... she still does not respond, so he "fetch" her a slap side de head dat sont her a" sprawlin". Here Jim is unaware that his daughter's recent scarlet fever has made her deaf. He orders her to get to work one more time, but she still does not respond. Just as he is about to strike her one more time, Jim notices that ... -at-large of "U.S. News & World Report," and shelley Fisher Fishkin, a professor of American studies in English and author of "Lighting out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture," Fishkin stated, "In Huckleberry Finn, the word "nigger" is used ov...

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