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=Child Labor Mirrors the Mistreatment of Huck=

During the rise of the Industrial Revolution and following the Civil War laborers were few and far between. Throughout the years of 1880-1899 child labor was a growing commodity. Many children no older than six were forced to work long arguous hours in filthy, confined factories. Their days could stretch to as long as nineteen hours with little or no breaks. Many children recieved no kind of pay for their labor. Factory owners tried to justify this act of inhumanity by offering orphans clothes, food, and shelter in return, of course, for their labor. Besides the obvious cruelty of forcing these your children to experience unrelenting labor they were also subject to even worse cruelties. Many boys and girls were beaten, verbally abused, or simply unsupervised. "Operating the power-driven machines did not require adult strength, and children could be hired more cheaply than adults. By the late-1800's, child labor was still a problem"(Grolier)

This occured for quite sometime before anyone tried to stop it. Where was our judicial system when these poor children were being forced to work tirelessly for more then 75% of the day? Where were they when these children were being beaten and ridiculed? They were simply not concerned with the problem or worse didn't believe it was a problem to begin with.

In the novel Huck Finn is abused and confined, much like these children, with no help from the law. Although at the time they did not believe they were doing any harm, in the long run they most certainly were. Twain critiques our countries institution of law and how it does not always come to the rescue of its citizens. Within the novel he portrays how the judicial system does not always do what is in the persons best interest, including children. He critiques child labor and how it both confines and abuses young children, much like how Huck was abused and locked away in his father's cabin. These two events compare because both represent poor treatment of children and the law's expense.

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