This is a quote by Julius Lester, from his essay Morality and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. ... In his essay "Born to Trouble: One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn," Justin Kaplan states, "In 1984, school officials in Waukegan, Illinois, removed Huckleberry Finn from the required reading list after an alderman, according to the Associated Press, objected to the book's use of the word "nigger." He goes on to say that regardless of the blatant use of racial slurs and stereotypical language, "these characters belong to their place and time, which is the Mississippi Valley thirty years bef...

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