Nearly two decades after the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the war, Mark Twain began writing his novel Huckleberry Finn, a novel criticized for having racism in the spotlight. In Huckleberry Finn, honorable and honest slave, Jim, is hindered by the insidious racism of the White society in the South. ... Although Huck releasing Jim from Miss Watson's servitude was going against the law, Huck's sense of justice and equality allows him to help set Jim free. Another example of Huck's humanity is shown when Huck and Jim encounter a meeting of slave-hunters; Huck learns tha...

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Especially in the debate about whether or not students should read Mark Twains novel of "Huckleberry Finn" where the first amendment has been unclear about who is right. ... He said that he loved the book as a boy because "'the relationship between Huck and Jim was such an easy, understanding relationship, the kind a boy wishes he could have.'"... In October 2001 Amiri Baraka, New Jersey's poet laureate, wrote a poem called "Somebody Blew Up America". ... Baraka even admitted that this is a"' poem that aims to probe and disturb-(Newman, 2). ...

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