BK Blog Post
Crazy Literary Fact of the Day: Huckleberry Finn was Once Banned Because It Was Not Racist Enough
Posted by
Jeevan Sivasubramaniam,
Managing Director, Editorial,
Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc.
While Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn continues to be a controversial book because of its depictions of slavery and the use of the n-word, most readers don't know that upon its initial publication, it was equally controversial and often banned in libraries but for almost the opposite reason. The depiction of a friendship between a Black man and a young White boy was, at the time, considered immoral and suggested that Huck was of questionable character. You can read more here.
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