“Does white mean you are good”? Slavery in the Deep South was a controversial issue around 1840 in the United States. There were plantation owners who’s success depended on slaves many people in the south-owned slaves; it was considered a part of society. Furthermore, plantation owners, owned sometimes hundreds, many families were split apart, and lifetime relationships were broken. It is in this setting when Mark Twain wrote the novel Huckleberry Finn. The slavery controversy …showed first 75 words of 268 total…

…showed last 75 words of 268 total…huck and Jim decide to escape. They both meet up on an island; called Jackson’s Island on the Mississippi river they find a cave to stay in for a wile. Huck finds a rattlesnake there and decides to kill it. Not knowing that it will come back and bite Jim in the arm. This time huck felt bad, but could not bring himself that low to say sorry to a black man. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**