How Mark Twain Exposed The Hypocrisy Behind Slavery

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Huckleberry Fin was written two decades after the Emancipation Proclamation and after the civil war ended in America. Although, the South still struggled with racism and prejudice of slavery. Mark Twain set his novel several decades back when slavery was still a thing for African Americans lives, but things still didn’t get better those who lived in the South. In the novel, Twain exposed the hypocrisy behind slavery by explaining how racism altered the oppressors as bad as it did to those who were oppressed. In which resulted in moral confusion for the world, like “good” white people such as Miss Watson and Sally Phelps expressing no concern for the injustice of slavery and the mistreatment of separating the slave, Jim, from his family. In