Here’s part of a line from Chap 13 of HF. Huck is speaking: “… [J] ust in the edge of the evening she started over with her ****** woman in the horse-ferry, to stay all night at her friend’s house …”
The casual use of the N word throughout the novel would be offensive to many readers. I’m fine with taking it off a required list. Anyone is free to read it on their own time.