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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (view source)
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'''''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn''''' by [[Mark Twain]] is probably the most popular anti-slavery novel in the English language. It is entertaining and has long been a favorite of children. It has been made into movies half a dozen times.
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'''''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn''''' by [[Mark Twain]] is probably the most popular anti-slavery novel in the English language. 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 Huckleberry "Huck" Finn (friend of the hero of ''[[Tom Sawyer]]'') run away to avoid beatings by his drunken father.
The story has village truant Huckleberry "Huck" Finn (friend of the hero of ''[[Tom Sawyer]]'') run away to avoid beatings by his drunken father.
Huck's decision to regard Jim as fully human and to ignore his "conscience" so as to risk "going to hell" to save him 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.
Huck's decision to regard Jim as fully human and to ignore his "conscience" so as to risk "going to hell" to save him 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.
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