Books and plays banned in Boston

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'Leaves of Grass' by Walt Whitman (new edition suppressed, 1881)

Some considered the American writer's poetry collection immoral because of its open exploration of the human body.
'Leaves of Grass' by Walt Whitman (new edition suppressed, 1881) Some considered the American writer's poetry collection immoral because of its open exploration of the human body.
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