The language used in Mark Twain’s classic tale The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is mostly benign, at least in comparison to it’s companion book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. However, being set in the Mississippi valley in about 1840, it has a few instances of the ‘n-word’, and quite a few of the word ‘Injun’. Those words have been removed from this version of the book, replaced with ‘slave’ and ‘Indigenous American’. My hope is that readers who would otherwise shun the book, and miss out on this masterpiece of American literature, will instead read this or another PC version. Readers who prefer to read the original version may do so here.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are best understood and appreciated by young readers if they have an understanding of the social context in which the story takes place. There are many sources of information on the history and consequences of slavery in the United States. Parents and young people are encouraged to refer to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass, and The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois.
— byGosh.com
