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HP Lovecraft notoriously named his cat ‘Nigger Man’. Was naming cats racial slurs common in the 19th and 20th century? Or was he an outlier? If it was common, when did it go out of practice?

by /u/PotatoPancakeKing in /r/AskHistorians

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