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probably the easiest anti-slavery novel for white people to read
''Huckleberry Finn'' is probably the easiest anti-slavery novel for white people to read. It is entertaining and has long been a favorite of children. It has been made into movies half a dozen times.
The story has village truant pal Huck Finn (friend of the hero of ''[[Tom Sawyer]]'' team up with Jim, a slave who runs away to avoid being sold South.
The two head down river on a raft and have several adventures. Perhaps the most poignant is the storm scene in which Huck changes his view of Jim as "just a slave" to "a human being".
Huck's decision to regard Jim as fully human and to ignore his "conscience" as risk "going to hell" to save him makes is the radical anti-slavery core of the book. It is significant that the story was written by a southerner from Hannibal, Missouri just two decades after the end of slavery.
The story has village truant pal Huck Finn (friend of the hero of ''[[Tom Sawyer]]'' team up with Jim, a slave who runs away to avoid being sold South.
The two head down river on a raft and have several adventures. Perhaps the most poignant is the storm scene in which Huck changes his view of Jim as "just a slave" to "a human being".
Huck's decision to regard Jim as fully human and to ignore his "conscience" as risk "going to hell" to save him makes is the radical anti-slavery core of the book. It is significant that the story was written by a southerner from Hannibal, Missouri just two decades after the end of slavery.