Racial Changes In Huckleberry Finn

In America’s history, the white people saw themselves as the superior population and discriminated against many different races. The majority of discrimination happened to be at the expense of the Black community. Throughout the nineteenth century, society’s views on race continued to evolve; some changed their previous perspectives after personal experiences with the African Americans.
During The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck was forced to deal with his morals and how he should not help Jim escape to freedom. Huck actually ended up stealing Jim from a farmer to get him to freedom. While Huck is spending so much time with Jim, his opinion of him changed. When Huck and Jim were on their way to Cairo, Huck was in a canoe and got separated from Jim on the raft. Jim had fallen asleep and when he woke up Huck tricked him into believing the whole thing was a dream and they had never been apart. Huck then realizes that what he did was a little harsh and feels the need to apologize. “...I didn’t do him no more mean tricks and I wouldn’t done that one if I’d a knowed it would make him feel that way.” (Twain 87). Huck feels sorry for playing tricks on Jim and he starts to realize that Jim being black doesn’t mean he deserves to be treated poorly. By putting this in the book, Mark Twain was foreshadowing the friendship to
The Citizenship Clause gave anyone who was born in the United States citizenship rights and it also said that African Americans had the right to citizenship (Bagwell). The Due Process Clause protected people’s rights and made it impossible for those rights to be confiscated. The last section, the Equal Protection Clause was put in place to protect the people from discrimination. This clause would eventually be used to end discrimination and segregation (“14th Amendment”). The man that made Pap very angry was actually protected by the Fourteenth Amendment because he was from a free state,