The Effects Of Morality In Huckleberry Finn

The Effects of Satirizing Morality in the 1800s As a slave, one is not a person. Mark Twain, author of the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, questions the belief that slaves are not people. Throughout the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain satirizes the morality of the 1800s in regards to how slaves are treated and implies that his own ethics disagree with the generally accepted morals of the time. It is apparent that Twain does not believe in the way slaves are treated. In the novel, the protagonist, a 13 year old boy named Huckleberry Finn, thought that the slave Jim was a good person. This was controversial in the 1800s because many people believed that slaves were not real people and did not have the ability to care