What Is The Role Of Reconstruction In Huck Finn

Mark Twain wrote the book Huckleberry Finn so that it was set before the Civil War took place. Twain had said that the setting of the novel was 40-50 years before the year it was published. This leads us to the estimation that it was set between the years 1835 and 1845. During the time that the book was set, America was still struggling with slavery and racism. The south suffered the worst. In the 1880’s they made a plan to fix the United States and integrate freed slaves into society; this was called the Reconstruction. It had yet to succeed, when the Jim Crow Laws were forced onto the people the black people continued to suffer. The Jim Crow Laws were “designed to limit the power of the blacks in the south in a variety of indirect ways…”