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The Little Picture: Word Banning.

January 4, 2011

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A display of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn at the Mark Twain Museum in Hannibal, Missouri. Next month, NewSouth Books will release an edition of the book that replaces "the 'n' word" with "slave."

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