And Twain wrote this, with no implication that Tom and Huck were in the wrong.
DA, but...uh, what? Mark Twain hated Tom Sawyer. Everything that happens after Tom shows up in Huck Finn is supposed to be portrayed as completely stupid and pointless, not to mention childish. This is also not counting the fact that pretty much everyone at the end of the book is wildly OOC (what with Huck forgetting pretty much every lesson he's learned), because Twain couldn't figure out how to end it anyway.
So, basically, no. Just no.
(Not arguing that the book isn't racist, because it is, but the very fact that it had a white male Southern protagonist who went so far as to consider the radical notion that Jim might be an actual person and not just a piece of property is a pretty big deal considering the time.)
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DA, but...uh, what? Mark Twain hated Tom Sawyer. Everything that happens after Tom shows up in Huck Finn is supposed to be portrayed as completely stupid and pointless, not to mention childish. This is also not counting the fact that pretty much everyone at the end of the book is wildly OOC (what with Huck forgetting pretty much every lesson he's learned), because Twain couldn't figure out how to end it anyway.
So, basically, no. Just no.
(Not arguing that the book isn't racist, because it is, but the very fact that it had a white male Southern protagonist who went so far as to consider the radical notion that Jim might be an actual person and not just a piece of property is a pretty big deal considering the time.)