A discussion of Mark Twain's anti-racist stance in Huck Finn and the novel's theme of freedom for all.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain has been heatedly attacked as a novel of racism for decades when, in fact, it is one of the "most anti-racist books ever written in America" (Pinsker 649). Critics have debated this topic since 1885, only to cause more pain than comfort for those who feel put down by the novel. Although some feel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a racist novel, which it may appear to be superficially, a …

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