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Originally Posted by crich70
True though you have to consider the times a book is written in as well I think. It was written in 1938 or 1939 (published in 1939) so the world was a bit different back then. There were still segregated restaurants, theater's, bathrooms and even water fountains back then.
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Not in Britain, and "Ten Little Niggers" was not regarded as an offensive title in Britain at the time. The US title of the book has always been "And Then There Were None", because the British title would have been offensive in the US. The British title was retained as late as the 1990s.