Huck admires Colonel Grangerford, the master of the house, and his supposed gentility. A warmhearted man, the colonel owns a very large estate with over a hundred slaves. Everyone in the household treats the colonel with great courtesy.
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Huck also says that he and Jim travel at night because they keep getting harassed by people who think Jim is a runaway slave. The Duke tells him that he will figure out a way for them to travel during the daytime. That night, the Duke and King take over Huck and Jim's beds.
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Chapter 19. Huck and Jim continue down the river for a few days, enjoying the fresh air and warm breezes. Huck finds a canoe and uses it to paddle up a stream about a mile in search of berries. Two men come running through the woods and beg him for help.
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Chapter 20. Huck explains to the King and Duke that he is a farmer's son who has lost his father and brother. He tells them that Jim is the last slave the family owns and that he is traveling south to Orleans to live with his Uncle Ben.
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Summary: Chapter 17. A man calls off the dogs, saving Huck, who introduces himself as “George Jackson.” The man invites “George” into his house, where the hosts express an odd suspicion that Huck is a member of a family called the Shepherdsons. Eventually, Huck’s hosts decide that he is not a Shepherdson.
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Some slaves found the raft, but Jim reclaimed it by threatening the slaves and telling them that it belonged to his white master. The next day, Huck learns that Sophia Grangerford has run off with Harney Shepherdson. In the woods, Huck finds Buck and a nineteen-year-old Grangerford in a gunfight with the Shepherdsons. Both of the Grangerfords are killed. Deeply disturbed, Huck heads for Jim and the raft, and the two shove off downstream. 1  1.
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In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses satire to mock many different aspects of the modern world. Throughout his trip down the Mississippi, and even prior to leaving St. Petersburg, Huck encounters a variety of people and situations that are designed to scoff at the American people. The Adventures of Huckleberry FInn was written shortly after the Civil War, in which slavery was one of the key issues. While Mark Twain's father had slaves throughout his childhood, Twain did not believe that slavery was right in anyway.
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as slavery spread into the Deep South, wealth and power became more equally shared among the various classes of white southerners. TRUE: slavery was worth more in terms of investment than all the land in the South. it was slavery that made possible the South's mass production of agriculture products for export. only a minority of Southerners owned slaves.
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Chapter 16. As Jim and Huck float downriver, Jim restlessly searches the riverbank for the town of Cairo. Each time Jim mentions how soon he will be free, Huck feels increasingly guilty. Huck knows that helping Jim escape is breaking the law, but Jim is also his friend.
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how did the government treat slaves during the huckleberry finn
Some slaves found the raft, but Jim reclaimed it by threatening the slaves and telling them that it belonged to his white master During the Huckleberry Finn, some slaves found the raft, but Jim reclaimed it by threatening the slaves and telling them that it belonged to his white master.