In the 1800's it was not uncommon for people to think of African Americans slaves as pieces of
expose-able property and nothing more. Well this is not the case in the tale of Huckleberry Fin. Huck
and Jims friendship matures and expands until the point of Huck offering his own life up for Jim and
Jim for Huck’s. The laying down of a human life shows the ultimate price to pay for friendship. Jim
and Huck both take upon their own shoulders to do this for each other.
Huck was raised in Missouri along the Mississippi River where slavery was legal and very
common. Huck being a child of an abusive drunk father who beat him often was educated to the idea of
slavery and that it was normal and all right.
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Miss
Watson was prepared to sell Jim, this displays that slavery was common during this time period and
that African American were treated as objects and possessions just as Huck had been taught when
growing up.
Being a slave was awful but what was even worse was being sold to New Orleans. New Orleans
was one of the most well know ports for bring in slaves and the further and further you traveled down
south the worse the conditions got for the slaves got and their living years declined dramatically. When
Jim heard Miss Watson talk of selling him he promptly escaped and tried to make his way toward the
free states. On his way to the free states Jim crosses paths with Huck and this is where their friendship
beings to dawn. “How do you come to be here,Jim and how'd you get here”?(110 pg) This is when the
two of them meet and being their journey together.
Towards the beginning of their adventure Huck really doesn’t think of Jim as a friend but still as
piece of property just as he had been taught when growing up but as their adventure continues Huck
starts to have more and more affection. But in the beginning Huck would constantly play mean