Publication of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, written as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It follows Huck, a boy escaping his abusive father, and Jim, an enslaved man fleeing to freedom, as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. Twain wrote it in the vernacular speech of the American South, and it criticises slavery, racism and hypocrisy in society through Huck's eyes. It was first published in Britain, and in the United States soon afterwards. Often described as a candidate for the great American novel, it has also been repeatedly challenged and banned for its use of racial language and its portrayal of race, and it remains widely debated in schools.

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