“I understand what they’re trying to do, make it more accessible, but they’re paying a tremendous price to essentially acquiesce to those who object to ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ because it contains this word,” says Harvard Law School Professor Randall L. Several members of the Harvard community say they acknowledge the malevolence of the word in American culture and society, but question whether its removal from the text will be significant enough to warrant the revision of a classic piece of literature. The book-scheduled to be released in February by NewSouth Books-will replace all instances of the word “nigger” with “slave.” Alan Gribben, a professor of English at Auburn University, said in an article in The New York Times that he initiated the project as a means to make the modified text more accessible to younger readers and general audiences. As a national debate simmers over a new, sanitized version of the American classic “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” members of the Harvard community say they are skeptical of the new edition of the novel.
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