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Cover of the book 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(Tom Sawyer's Comrade)' by Mark Twain (SamuelClemens), 1884. The illustration, by E. M. Kimble,shows a young boy who stands in front of a picketfence while wearing a straw hat. (Photo by HultonArchive/Getty Images)

Suburban Philadelphia high school removes‘Huckleberry Finn’POSTED 6:37 PM, DECEMBER 11, 2015, BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

PHILADELPHIA — A suburban Philadelphiaschool is removing “The Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn” from its 11th gradecurriculum, saying the language and portrayalof blacks makes students uncomfortable.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Friends’Central School decided the “community costs”of reading Mark Twain’s 1885 classic outweighthe literary benefits.

Art Hall, principal of the school in Wynnewood,says the book’s use of racial slurs was“challenging for some students, who felt theschool was not being inclusive.”

The school is guided by a Quaker philosophy.

The book about manners, race and rebellion in pre-Civil War has inspired controversy since itsrelease 130 years ago. In 2011, an Alabama publisher replaced the offending word with “slave.”

A Twain biographer has called book’s slur the “ultimate teachable moment in Americanliterature.”

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