To begin with, in the 1840’s African Americans were subjected into being property for white people. In Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain leads us on an expedition that portrays that Africans were labeled as property. For instance, when Huck is looking for Jim he runs into a young boy who states, “Well, I reckon! That’s two hundred dollars reward on him. It’s like pickin up money out’n the road” (Twain 211). Jim is originally
To begin with, in the 1840’s African Americans were subjected into being property for white people. In Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain leads us on an expedition that portrays that Africans were labeled as property. For instance, when Huck is looking for Jim he runs into a young boy who states, “Well, I reckon! That’s two hundred dollars reward on him. It’s like pickin up money out’n the road” (Twain 211). Jim is originally