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These population groups were too occupied with trying, in the one case, to recover from the degradation of slavery and the institution of Jim Crow segregation policies, and, in the other case, to survive the onslaught of settlers and buffalo-hunters who had decimated their ways of life, than to bother about objectionable vocabulary choices in two popular books.
But as an adult he courted and married in a woman whose New York State family had vehemently opposed slavery long before the Civil War. This conception has become a heavier and heavier burden for the book to carry since the Civil Rights movement of the s and s erased many racial impediments and sensitized succeeding generations of Americans to the manner in which language can affect thinking.
He likewise took cues about adjusting his tone from lecture platform appearances, which provided him with direct responses to his diction. For nearly forty years I have led college classes, bookstore forums, and library reading groups in detailed discussions of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in California, Texas, New York, and Alabama, and I always recoiled from uttering the racial slurs spoken by numerous characters, including Tom and Huck.
Students and audience members seemed to prefer this expedient, and I could detect a visible sense of relief each time, as though a nagging problem with the text had been addressed. Indeed, numerous communities currently ban Huckleberry Finn as required reading in public schools owing to its offensive racial language and have quietly moved the title to voluntary reading lists. The American Library Association lists the novel as one of the most frequently challenged books across the nation. Nonetheless, Langston Hughes made a forceful, lasting argument for omitting this incendiary word from all literature, from however well-intentioned an author.
During the s, educator John H.
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Another scholar, Jonathan Arac, has urged that students be prompted to read other, more unequivocally abolitionist works rather than this one novel that has been consecrated as the mandatory literary statement about American slavery. My personal turning point on the journey toward this present NewSouth Edition was a lecture tour I undertook in Alabama in I had written the introduction for an edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer designed to interest younger readers in older American literature.
Here was further proof that this single debasing label is overwhelming every other consideration about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn , whereas what these novels have to offer readers hardly depends upon that one indefensible slur. My understanding about this situation crystallized into a definite resolve. Unquestionably both novels can be enjoyed just as deeply and authentically if readers are not obliged to confront the n-word on so many pages.
Although the text loses some of the caustic sting that the n-word carries, that price seems small compared to the revolting effect that the more offensive word has on contemporary readers. Moreover, slavery is recognized globally as an affront to humanity. Despite occasional efforts of rap and hip hop musicians to appropriate the term, and well-meaning but usually futile from my own experience endeavors by classroom teachers to inoculate their students against it by using Huckleberry Finn as a springboard to discuss its etymology and cultural history, the n-word remains inarguably the most inflammatory word in the English language.
In the contiguous state of Arkansas where the latter part of Huckleberry Finn is set the percentage was twenty-six, and that percentage rose drastically in the Deep South, with fifty-five percent of the residents of Mississippi consisting of slaves. By , four million of the twelve million people living in the Southern states were slaves who controlled neither their bodies nor their labor.