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I am hoping the OP is joking about any kind of censorship (which a statement like the original post would appear to be lobbying for).
I find it sad that novels from the past which have viewpoints which were normal at the time they were written and used language that was standard for the time are now being put on censored lists.
Mark Twain comes to mind with his inappropriate language and attitudes to the blacks in his novels. Note that I do not consider the works of Twain to be historical fiction... they were contemporary when he wrote them.
I fondly remember being very young and having heard about "Honest Abe" and seen pictures of him. After seeing a movie that had President Lincoln in it I puzzled about how he could be alive on tv when he was dead. The actor looked like the pictures I had seen. I don't remember if I asked my parents how he could be on tv when he was dead (I think I did) but it was my "reality check" show. It was the movie that taught me that all you see on tv is not real.
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