The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Racism and SlaveryHow would you feel if a white boy couldn't apologize to a grown black man because it goes against his faith ? If I were in the black man's place I wouldn't feel respected, but I wouldn't blame the white boy because he was raised like that and it's his mentality to view African Americans as property and with disgust. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain incorporates racism and slavery to show how and why it is wrong. He uses Huck, one of his male characters, to demonstrate how a white boy moves away from the racist ideas of society and those around him to form a strong friendship with a slave named Jim, who becomes a runaway. He uses Jim to demonstrate humanity and how it has nothing to do with the color of your skin. It also shows the struggle that African Americans had to go through during this period to be free. Through his friendship, Huck learns that Jim is an ordinary human being, like everyone else. Slavery refers to a condition in which individuals are owned by others, who control where they live and what they work. Twain wrote this novel twenty years after the Emancipation Proclamation, but that didn't stop white people from getting their "property." At the time, slavery was normal, it was neither illegal nor criminal. The sad thing is that white people thought slaves were unintelligent, useless, possessed, etc. For example, on page 81, Huck realizes something interesting about Jim. “Well, he was right; he was almost always right; he had a calm face unusual for a Negro” (81). “I see that there is no point in wasting words: you cannot teach a Negro to argue. So I stopped.” As Huck spends more time with Jim, Huck realizes that people are so self-centered, arrogant, and proud that we don't care about anyone but ourselves. When we say the Pledge of Allegiance, we do not mean that we say… I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it represents, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. . When you say the commitment, you must say every word, because it is only a commitment but a vow to God. When we talk about justice and freedom, we are not just talking about Americans but about the entire world. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation declaring “that all persons held as slaves” in the rebel states “are and hereafter shall be free.” From my perspective, this was a command from God through Abraham. The sad thing is that we still don't follow it. Slavery and racism must end before they get out of control.