Patently stupid and foolish. Sam Clemens used the book to excoriate the antebellum South and slavery. Jim, while an uneducated, and sometimes superstitious slave, is unmistakably a real character, not a caricature.
The language was accurate for its time. It is foolish to dump a book that is one of the few contemporary works to undermines the romantic notions of the South popular in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
***Sam Clemens used the book to excoriate the antebellum South and slavery.***
His Library of wit and Humor will never make the grade then as Clemens was rough on blacks in that book. But then, he was rough on everyone in that book! Italians, Irish, Sea captains...