First of all, I wanted to say that I really liked how Was Twain borrowing from others unjustly when he wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is written. It was really concise and I really enjoyed the opening paragraph of the article. It was smart and it was really able to "capture" me and hold my attention.
I'd like to add my response to my previous post, Shining City Upon A Hill. I believe that Mark Twain's novel should not be altered in any way. I haven't been exposed to a lot of Mark Twain's novels so I can't say that my vantage point is really as accurate as I want it to be. But I do feel that through his language and diction, Twain is actually able to capture the essence of his epoch. Whether he did so knowingly or not, one may never know. But what makes his works so important is exactly that. He represents a nation and its problems. The fact that the author used the word "nigger" is fundamentally the very base of the fact that he is an author.
I'm sure that Twain used the word "nigger" in his everyday life and the use of that word in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn shows how life was for Twain and for all other Americans. Saying that you think that the word "nigger" or "injun" should be changed in Twain's works is like saying that you approve of Holocaust revisionism. You can't change history and by messing with the documents which prove the very existence of history, you are tampering with undebatable truths!
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