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Racism and Anti-Racism in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: In five pages this paper examines whether or not this controversial nineteenth-century text is an example of racism or anti-racism. Three sources are listed in the bibliography.
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was revered for the satirical humor that was featured in his lectures, travelogues, and novels. He had a talent for regional dialects, which breathed an air of realism into
his novels and short stories that was much appreciated by both Twains critics and his legions of admirers. More than a decade after the Confederates lost the Civil War,
Twain decided to write an adventure tale as seen through the eyes of an adolescent boy. Although President Abraham Lincoln had officially ended slavery years earlier with his Emancipation
Proclamation of 1863, racism was still the rule rather than the exception in the postbellum South. Therefore, to maintain the sense of realism for which Twain had become famous,
racist attitudes had to be included in a novel about life along the Mississippi River, no doubt near Twains hometown of Hannibal. When Mark Twain released The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn in 1885 to great acclaim and enthusiastic readers, he probably never could have imagined that more than a century later, his mischievous teenage protagonist would be taking a
backseat to novels incidences of racial prejudice, which was no doubt only used for the sake of authenticity. However, a heated debate continues to rage well into the twenty-first
century about whether The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn represents racism and should be banned from public schools or is, in fact, an anti-racism text that should be studied as classic
American literature. In the opening preface of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain posts a tongue-in-cheek Notice that reads, "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will
be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot" (vii). Yet, ever since its
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