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After the Civil war, in which Huck Finn took place, the United States had a renewal of hope. Not only blacks but everyone had more of an economic opportunity, social mobility, and political expectations. Institutions had debates over what African Americans need to know to make their way in the world. But question that Twain rose throughout the novel is, is slavery absolutely bad for the United States (Jim's fight towards freedom, and his struggles with Huck having the opportunities to turn him in)? The definition of slavery {[|wikipedia (slavery)]} is the social or de-facto status of specific [|persons], known as slaves, who have been stripped of [|individual rights], and are the [|property] of another person or household. Just in the definition we can see that slavery was crucial to put on anyone. First of all, it took away all the African Americas rights, freedom, individuality, etc. They never got anything out of it hence the word "slave." Another bit that proves slavery is bad is that many people died while in it.

Although Twain was not completely against slavery, he just brought out concerns about slavery in his novel. He sees that things need to be changed in slavery, but he’s not completely against slavery, which is why he may have made Huck and Jim’s direction go from North to South. The back and forth movement in which Huck and Jim go through is a transition to freedom was not a smooth path. The back and forth movement tells us that a lot of obstacles that need to be overcome before slavery will be changed; it is not an easy path.

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