![]() ![]() More recently Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been banned or challenged for racial slurs. One reviewer called it "the veriest trash more suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable people." The Brooklyn Public Library banned the book in 1905 for the use of the word "sweat" (instead of perspiration) and for saying, "Huck not only itched but scratched." Twain fired back by saying, "Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it." Although the "n" word appears 200+ times in the book, it didn't initially cause much controversy. In 1885, the Concord Public Library banned the book for its "coarse language." Critics deemed Twain's use of slang as demeaning and damaging. It continues to be one of the most challenged books in the United States. Mark Twain's classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has been under scrutiny for the use of language since it was first published in 1884. ![]()
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