Slavery In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

A Defining Line Ernestine Rose once said, “Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.” Mark Twain makes it very obvious that this is true in his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. There are many times that Huck, Tom And Jim’s relationships are segregated by slavery. Jim lives in a whole different world than the boys, which they will never understand. Jim and Huck both run away in the beginning of the novel and their intentions are very different. Jim’s feeling of freedom while cruising down the river is nothing close to that of Huck. Lastly, when Jim is freed from the Phelps’ farm. In the beginning of the novel, Huck and Jim both end up running away from civilization to Jackson Island. Huck ran away because the widow was slowly putting his life together and helping him be successful. She was civilizing him. And he hates that, so he runs
He is treated just like all the other slaves there. This is the first time in the whole novel where the main focus is actually slavery. The plot becomes; helping Jim escape. They go through all of the struggles to free Jim in the most dangerous and epic way, just to find out that Tom was bringing a letter that stated that Jim was already free. Huck even knew all along. There is definitely a defining line between when Jim was a slave and when he is freed. The book has three chapters about Jim going from being a slave… to being free. So you can conclude that, “slavery and freedom cannot exist together”. There are so many examples that prove Ernestine Rose’s quote right in Huckleberry Finn. Slavery is a key component and theme in this novel. Twain uses language and slurs from that time to show what people thought and how little they cared about other humans; and to make it real. This novel proves this correct so many different times with different characters throughout the story. It is very obvious that slavery and freedom cannot exist