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No, they shouldn't. Certainly not for political reasons.
Why not add footnotes or an introductory essay explaining the historic context of the word "nigger" instead? Censoring it completely is basically falsifying history.
But one acceptable reason I could think of to revise books is when they are written in olde language (medieval or earlier) to make them more accessible for modern day readers. But that is more another form of translating rather than revising.
Obviously that's not the case here, everyone knows what the word "nigger" means.
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