Posted on 12/11/2015 7:32:03 PM PST by markomalley
After The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in 1885, the book was boycotted in some places in the United States for portraying friendship between a black man and a white boy.
"In its time, it was derided and censored," said Deborah Caldwell-Stone, deputy director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, which tracks challenges to books.
Today, Mark Twain's classic - about a boy who flees his abusive father and travels down the Mississippi River with an escaped slave - is still sometimes challenged in American schools, but for nearly the opposite reason: its liberal use of the N-word and perceived racist portrayals of black characters.
This week, a Montgomery County school removed Huckleberry Finn from its curriculum after a group of students said the book made them uncomfortable.
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got started on posting it chapter by chapter, will have to hunt up the file and continue the process.
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Sure; Islam is as American as bean pies and kebab!
Actually, it played an important role in one of our first exercises in projecting force overseas (with the Barbary pirates at “the shores of Tripoli”).
And anti-slavery in tone...
I graduated from a Bishop England High School, Charleston, SC, in 1970. I can recall that all of the books of that time that other schools were banning, Catcher in the Rye, Huckleberry Finn, etc., were in our school library. Along with copies of the Kuran.
> What would that appraise for? curious
We’ve already turned down $1200, because it seemed low.
***It is a First Edition copy of “Huckleberry Finnâ€.***
For some reason a scene with a flame thrower from the movie FAHRENHEIT 451 popped into mind.
When I read it political correctness was not in the vocabulary. The morale was do the right thing. Some made it a slavery thing. It wasn’t to me.
When Huck tries to say “Can you speak French?” in French to Jim, it is so mangled that they had put the correct French in brackets after Huck’s version.
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