Tag: Huckleberry Finn

It was ‘my language,’ says our hero James, that ‘had so disturbed and frightened’ Judge Thatcher, the White slaver.1 But it was neither James’s profanity (which is non-existent), nor his angry delivery, that shocks the Judge. Instead, it’s James’s ability to speak conventional American-English. Up to this point the Judge, like all other White characters…