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Modern Day Slavery In Huckleberry Finn

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Modern-Day Slavery Modern-day slavery is alive and well in two thousand seventeen. In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, he speaks of man by the name of Jim who repeatedly tries to escape to free states. Many times, Jim climbed aboard a raft and would float down the Mississippi River towards freedom. So many times, he returned home to his owner as a slave. Even when Jim had the chance to leave, he stayed. Even when Jim was considered free, he remained. Bound by the mindset of slavery he could not break free from the physical slavery. So many times, people are bound to the mindset of slavery that they begin to repeat history and keep themselves bound to the past because they do not know how to break free. In this, …show more content…

(Twain 346). This goes to show the mindset of Jim at the end of the story. This also can go to show how some people live today. Many times, over, Jim did not go away. He stayed. He stayed because perhaps he did not know he was free or because he was afraid to leave the comfort in which he had lived for so long. How many times do we see this today? Too many. In the writings by Harriet Tubman, The Freedmen’s Records, she writes, “I can’t die but once” (Unknown). She was referring to her work on the underground railroad where she leads many slaves to freedom. She put her life on the line to benefit others. In this writing unlike Twain’s, people knew where to go to get free. They searched out the ways to get there and ultimate many were freed. Today, there is still slavery. Right now, in Libya, millions of African American’s are being sold into slavery(USA TODAY). People are being taking from their homes and forced into this. Some people are trying to run but they are finding themselves with no place to go. No safe harbor. People sit in their homes and watch the television and see photos flash across the screen and they do nothing. Huck, did nothing really for Jim and we find out in the end that Huck was just as racist as the others. He used Jim for his own selfish

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