Analysis of Huckleberry Finn. Essay

I feel that Mark Twain wrote "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" partially to reminisce about the adventures he had in his own life as well as mix a bit of fresh history with the innocent ignorance of children in a society shaped by a strict set of rules versus a child who grew up outside of this strict society who second guessed what was right or wrong courses of action and partially because though slavery was abolished in the south due to the Emancipation Proclamation from Lincoln and the Civil War was long ended there was still heavy tension between the whites and blacks of the South and just how much freedom should be given to freed blacks or if freeing them was the greatest course of action. Essentially land owning, free white men lost vast amounts of property in the exchange. The Reconstruction period was not easy coming and put even more pressure on a sour split and integrating newly freed slaves into a white society was a difficult task. During Mark Twain's time race relations had ups and downs (probably more downs). Much like how women had very little rights that were exercised the South created Jim Crow laws in an attempt to repress the freed slaves even further. Instead of outright saying "we won't allow you do to this because we don't deem you worthy" they established a slew of nonsensical laws such as; while blacks were still able to attend and be elected into local offices laws were passed to make elections extremely difficult for blacks to attend and literacy tests for blacks who wanted to vote, sometimes even if they passed the literacy tests they would then be subjected to a family tree test of sorts, where, if their grandfather or father was not a 'citizen' in the US they could not vote (which most were not).
If a southerner in that day and age was reading Huckleberry Finn I feel their responses would be mixed. The tied turning event of the Civil War, Proclamation and freeing of the slaves was only approximately twenty years before this book was