Slavery

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Slavery RacisminThe Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn

• By
• Renato Martinez
• Ismael
• Block3

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The Declaration of Independence

• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all
  men are created equal, that they are endowed by
  their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
  that among these are Life, Liberty and the
  pursuit of Happiness.

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Meet Mark Twain

• Throughout his career, Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  (Mark Twain) published more than 30 books,
  hundreds of short stories and essays and gave
  lecture tours around the world. By the end of his
  life in 1910, Clemens had become known as the
  quintessential American author having captured in
  his works the spirit, character and even dialect
  of a diverse nation. His writing also served to
  voice his running commentary on American society.
  Thinly veiled behind the mask of humor and
  satire, Clemens' writing often critiqued social
  morals, politics and human nature, making his
  literature a unique reflection of the American
  experience in the latter part of the nineteenth
  century.

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Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn

• Although Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn two
  decades after the Emancipation Proclamation and
  the end of the Civil War, America and especially
  the South was still struggling with racism and
  the aftermath of slavery.

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Early 1880s

• By the early 1880s Reconstruction, the plan to
  put the United States back together after the war
  integrated freed slaves into society had hit
  shaky ground, although it had not yet failed
  outright. As Twain worked on his novel race
  relations, which seemed to be on a positive path
  in the years following the Civil War once again
  became strained. The imposition of Jim Crow laws
  designed to limit the power of blacks in the
  South in a variety of indirect ways, it brought
  the beginning of a new insidious effort to
  oppress.

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Jim Crow Laws

• From the 1880s into the 1960s, a majority of
  American states enforced segregation through "Jim
  Crow" laws (so called after a black character in
  minstrel shows). From Delaware to California, and
  from North Dakota to Texas, many states could
  impose legal punishments on people for consorting
  with members of another race. The most common
  types of laws forbade intermarriage and ordered
  business owners and public institutions to keep
  their black and white clients separated.

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In Huckleberry Finn

• In Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain exposes the
  hypocrisy of slavery and demonstrates how racism
  distorts the oppressors as much as it does to
  those who are oppressed. The result is a world of
  moral confusion in which seemingly good white
  people express no concern about the injustice of
  slavery or the cruelty of separating blacks from
  their family.

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Bibliography

• http//www.literacyrules.com/Black20History/crow2
  .htm
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageHuck-and-jim-on
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• http//www.sparknotes.com/lit/huckfinn/themes.html
  
• http//www.marktwainhouse.org