when he made the statement, "You don't know about me...but that ain't no matter." The

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was not a sequel to his other adventure stories but a

literary statement questioning how civilized our American society really was. Twain was

not a racist but a realist. The perception of racism in the novel should be attributed to the

historical setting and the effect it had on its characters. The story took place in the South

before the Civil War. The South's economic structure depended on keeping the Negro in

servitude. Many white Americans accepted slavery and believed the Negroes were inferior

which resulted in racist attitudes and behaviors. Twain used the character development of

Jim and Huck to demonstrate how these attitudes could change once Huck was able to see

past the cultural stereotype of Jim being a Negro and recognize he was a person who was

both noble and decent and deserved to be free like any other man whether he was black or

Twain's early development of the character Jim has been controversial because of

the apparent racism. In the early chapters, Jim was portrayed

outlined the rules he found in adventure books. Instead, Twain hoped his reader would

not purely racist, since it was not used in a derogatory manner but as a term meaning black

incident to show how Huck's viewpoint and values had changed. Huck realized that Jim

exploiting Jim's superstitious beliefs to play a joke on him. In Chapter 10, Huck put a

world to touch a snakeskin." Then Huck realized Jim wasn't really the fool he thought

If the reading public had taken a closer look at The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, they

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