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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (view source)
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, 17:22, June 10, 2010a far more convincing indictment of slavery than the sensationalist propaganda of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
''Huckleberry Finn'' is a story about the friendship between two outcasts, one a 13-year-old streetwise (white) [[urchin]], the other a mature (black) [[runaway slave]]. While Jim is running away from the prospect of losing his cushy house-servant position for the drudgery of a deep south plantation, Huck is also running away from a slavelike existence as prisoner of his own drunken father. Both are relieved upon their meeting on Jackson Island, with Jim just as happy to find that Huck is not a ghost as Huck is to find that Jim is not someone who will return him to Pap. Each then takes a considerable risk in trusting the other, with Jim confessing his secret plan to run away (he'd be punished terribly if other whites found this out) and Huck choosing to aid a runaway slave (risk at least being called an "[[abolitionist]]" but also exposing himself to other, more severe penalties).
''Huckleberry Finn'' is a story about the friendship between two outcasts, one a 13-year-old streetwise (white) [[urchin]], the other a mature (black) [[runaway slave]]. While Jim is running away from the prospect of losing his cushy house-servant position for the drudgery of a deep south plantation, Huck is also running away from a slavelike existence as prisoner of his own drunken father. Both are relieved upon their meeting on Jackson Island, with Jim just as happy to find that Huck is not a ghost as Huck is to find that Jim is not someone who will return him to Pap. Each then takes a considerable risk in trusting the other, with Jim confessing his secret plan to run away (he'd be punished terribly if other whites found this out) and Huck choosing to aid a runaway slave (risk at least being called an "[[abolitionist]]" but also exposing himself to other, more severe penalties).
==An anti-slavery work==
Poet [[T. S. Eliot]] called the story, "a far more convincing indictment of [[slavery]] than the sensationalist propaganda of [[Uncle Tom’s Cabin]].<ref name=thesis />
==Notes==
==Notes==