RUTH AYLETT admires the blunt honesty with which a woman’s experience is recorded, but detects the unexamined privilege that underlies it
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That Librarian — The Fight Against Book-Banning in America
Amanda Jones, Bloomsbury, £18
THE first amendment to the constitution of the United States purports to protect freedom of expression, namely freedom of speech, religion and the press.
However, this freedom was flouted from the start and by the 1850s the Southern states were censoring anti-slavery material, including Uncle Tom’s Cabin which was given a public burning.
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