How Does Twain Present Slavery In Huckleberry Finn

In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain satirizes the southern view that African Americans are inferior through emphasizing the prejudice of characters. Twain displays the biased idea about slavery in Pap’s long rant. In the log cabin, cooks dinner while Pap drinks alcohol. Huck mentions how when Pap drinks, he usually attacks the government. This night, Pap rambles on about how the government is bad for allowing an African American from Ohio have freedom and voting rights, which Pap responds by saying he will never vote again. Pap questions why the freeman is not sold into slavery (34-35). Pap’s long drunk diatribe against freed African Americans clearly demonstrates his animosity for black people. Pap’s drunkenness is one reason for this discourse to be seen
Another example of Twain attacking the view that African Americans are lesser than whites is by stressing Huck’s amazement of Huck caring for his family. On the raft, Huck and Jim act as watchmen to ensure that the raft doesn’t crash into anything or that nobody discovers them. Jim took over part of Huck’s shift and when Huck woke up early in the morning, he heard Jim moaning about missing his family. Jim is very homesick and misses his family. Huck reacts to Jim’s passion with: “…I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their’n. It don’t seem natural, but I reckon so” (158). When Huck hears Jim groan, he is very surprised because he did not think that African Americans and white people were equal. This is a ridiculous thought because everyone is human and has emotions, such as homesickness. Twain uses Huck’s astonishment of the equality of African Americans and whites to display the common view of African Americans being secondary to white people. Furthermore, Twain ridicules the menial view of African Americans when the King and the Duke worry about the slaves stealing the money from their