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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Season 1, Ep. 3
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There are 219 uses of the n-word in Huck Finn, but nary a one in Chapter Three. It's a diversion. Twain goes after Religion instead: "I says to myself, if a body can get anything they want by praying, why don't Deacon Winn get back the money he lost on pork?"

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  • 1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

    09:11||Season 1, Ep. 1
    In Black & White & Color combines spoken word & commentary by award-winning actor (The Seven Sides of Shakespeare, Best Supporting Actor Atlanta Black Theatre Festival) & author (Hall of Fools) Shamrock McShane.

  • 7. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

    16:58||Season 1, Ep. 7
    Huck Finn plots his own murder with a style Tom Sawyer would appreciate.

  • 6. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

    19:13||Season 1, Ep. 6
    Pap carves himself up with the n-word. Pap's Election Integrity: "When I found out there was a state in this country where they'd let that n-word vote, I drawed out. I says I'll never vote ag'in."

  • 5. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

    11:38||Season 1, Ep. 5
    Meet Pap: "where his face showed it was white, not like another man's white, a white to make a body sick, a white to make a body's flesh crawl - a tree-toad white, a fish-belly white."

  • 4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

    08:59||Season 1, Ep. 4
    Bad luck! Huck discovers Pap's footprints in the snow. He sells his $6000 fortune to Judge Thatcher for $1 to discourage Pap's rapacity. Then he goes to Jim, his comrade in superstition, who consults a magic hairball that can tell the future.

  • 2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

    15:44||Season 1, Ep. 2
    “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called ‘Huckleberry Finn’.” Ernest Hemingway

  • 13. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

    04:48||Season 4, Ep. 13
    Short & Sweet, one of the most graceful denouements ever: The End of Huck Finn!

  • 12. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

    21:08||Season 4, Ep. 12
    The penultimate chapter, Jim suffers for our sins, and Twain lets fire a fusillade of 18 n-words to send the message home.
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