[Smokin' Joe]

Sadly, one of the things which happened there was that "N______ Jim" became "Jim" in Huck's eyes, and with that humanization, the reader picked up on the fact that N______s had feelings, too.

All I can say is that it is a good thing they weren't reading Puddinhead Wilson. (Incidentally a treatise on 'Nature vs. Nurture')

They would have had immediate seizures just reading the Cliff's Notes.

[Jeff Chandler]

“They’re after us, Jim.” They and us. A white boy and a black man. Revolutionary at the time.

The book is important in American history, but then stupid people aren’t interested in history.