Censorship is as old as writing, but its targets have shifted over the centuries. Here’s how book banning emerged in the U.S. and how it affects modern readers today
Though censorship is as old as writing, its targets have shifted over the centuries. Here’s how book banning emerged in the United States—stretching as far back as when some of the nation’s territories were British colonies—and how censorship affects modern readers today.Most of the earliest book bans were spurred by religious leaders, and by the time Great Britain founded its colonies in America, it had a longstanding history of book censorship.
Outraged, Pynchon’s fellow colonists denounced him as a heretic, burned his pamphlet, and banned it—the first event of its kind in what would later become the U.S. Only four copies of his controversial tract survive today.In the first half of the 19th century, materials about the nation’s most incendiary issue, the enslavement of people, alarmed would-be censors in the South.
As historian Claire Parfait notes, the book was publicly burned and banned by slaveholders along with other anti-slavery books. In Maryland, free Black minister Sam Green wasAs the Civil War roiled in the 1860s, the pro-slavery South continued to ban abolitionist materials while Union authoritiesA war against 'immorality'
In 1873, the war against books went federal with the passage of the Comstock Act, a congressional law that made itto possess “obscene” or “immoral” texts or articles or send them through the mail. Championed by moral crusader Anthony Comstock, the laws were designed to ban both content about sexuality and birth control—which at the time, was widely available via mail order.
The law criminalized the activities of birth control advocates and forced popular pamphlets like Margaret Sanger’s
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