called racist are when Aunt Sally and Huck are talking about the accident on the steamboat. Aunt Sally says "Good gracious! Anybody hurt?" Huck says "No'm," "Killed a nigger." And then Aunt Sally says "Well it's lucky, because sometimes people do get hurt" (Salwen 1). That is not racist, it is simply how blacks were thought of during the pre-Civil War period. When Twain wrote this book, people did not think of a black person as anythi
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