Mark Twain has often been accused of being racist because of his derogatory writings about African-Americans in Huckleberry Finn, but he is really an ignorant satirist who draws inspiration from his childhood experiences, his travels, and political movements, to mock what is wrong in his society. Critics such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People complained about the "N" language and the use of Jim the slave in Huckleberry Finn stating that the book was racially biased, although Mark Twain clearly demonstrated racial equality in Huckleberry Finn when he stated "Okay, I'm going to hell", and was unable to tell the truth and return his friend to slavery or when he stated "Just because you were taught something right, and everyone believes that be right, but that doesn't make it right.” He even went so far as to ask Huck and Tom to do crazy things to free Jim from slavery, such as stealing him and sailing down the Mississippi River on the raft. Because of the fury of critics, and despite critics like Ernest Hemingway who defended it by stating that "every part of modern literature is based on Huckleberry Finn", it was withdrawn from library shelves in 1885 and schools removed it from their reading lists in 1950. .Mark Twain wrote this book in a period in where slavery was acceptable and the “N” word was used in common parlance. An era often referred to by historians as the Gilded Age, which was ironically coined by Charles Dudley and Mark Twain, after their book entitled The Gilded Age; A Tale Of Today, which told the story of Mark Twain's move from Florida to Hannibal, Mo, through the Hawkins migration and the greed that existed after the Civil War and Reconstruction period. It was quite common for Mark T...... middle of the paper ......tion to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to discuss human behaviors, Aunt Polly (who was Mark Twain's mother) represented goodness, and Tom represented kindness. pranks that the boys would do. typically enter.Bernard De Voto would further state: “More widely and deeply than anyone else who ever wrote books, he shared the life of America. Printer, pilot, soldier, silver miner, gold washer, son of two emigrants, pilgrim... He wrote books that have something eternally faithful to the core of his nation's life. ” (Bradshaw, Rodney XXI1) Therefore, he did not just speak in favor of slavery but against all the wrongs he saw committed during his time period such as social class and, at times, tries to encourage humor by saying quotes like "For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one weapon: laughter... Against nothing can resist the onslaught of laughter." (Mark Twain, Mystery Stranger).