Challenge to Slavery - "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark.

In recent years, there has been increasing discussion of the seemingly racist ideas expressed by Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In some extreme cases the novel has even been banned by public school systems and censored by public libraries. The basis for these censorship campaigns has been the depiction of one of the main characters in Huckleberry Finn, Jim, a black slave. Jim is a "typical" black slave who runs away from …

…who has become one of his only friends, should be a slave. Through Huck's internal and external struggles against himself and society, Twain expresses his opinions of the absurdity of slavery and the importance of following one's personal conscience before the laws of society. By the end of the novel, Huck and the reader have come to understand that Jim is clearly not solely a piece of property and an inferior man, but an equal.