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=Racism=

In the novel, Huck Finn, Mark Twain makes fun of the racism and slavery in the south. One way that he makes fun of the racist attitudes is through Huck's father. At one point in the novel Huck's father complains about an educated black man that is free in his town. He feels that he should, by law, be allowed to take this black man and sell him into slavery. He even says "They call that a govment that can't sell a free nigger till he's been in the State six months. Here's a govment that calls itself a govment, and lets on to be a govment, and thinks it is a govment, and yet's got to set stock-still for six whole months before it can take a hold of a prowling, thieving, infernal, white-shirted free nigger, and-". It is ironic that he says that as an american he should be able to take a freed black american and sell him into slavery.