| Quote #28 And his Aunt Polly she said Tom was right about old Miss Watson setting Jim free in her will; and so, sure enough, Tom Sawyer had gone and took all that trouble and bother to set a free nigger free! and I couldn't ever understand before, until that minute and that talk, how he COULD help a body set a nigger free with his bringing-up. (42.57) |
Even after Jim has displayed incredible loyalty and selflessness, Huck is still too embedded in a racist environment to believe that a proper boy could help free a slave.