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Article: Huck's heresy.(Humanism And The Arts)(Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)(Critical Essay)
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- Free Inquiry
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is not Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. In Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1852 at the height of the abolitionists' struggle to end slavery, Stowe strove to make readers aware of the evils of that institution and in so doing to win sympathy and support for the antislavery forces. As Uncle Tom's Cabin was effective in doing that, it was an important weapon in the abolitionists' arsenal. Huckleberry Finn, on the other hand, did not appear in the United States until 1885, more than twenty years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. As slavery had long ceased to exist in the United States and, with each ...
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