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There’s debate today over how progressive “Huck Finn” really is. What were the reactions of newspapers, politicians, pro/anti slave groups, free/enslaved blacks+ to it? Was there another way to refer to a black person at the time besides the n word? Had any books featured black characters before?

by /u/nueoritic-parents in /r/AskHistorians

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