is jim a slave in huckleberry finn?
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Jim -  One of Miss Watson’s household slaves. Jim is superstitious and occasionally sentimental, but he is also intelligent, practical, and ultimately more of an adult than anyone else in the novel. Jim’s frequent acts of selflessness, his longing for his family, and his friendship with both Huck and Tom demonstrate to Huck that humanity has nothing to do with race. Because Jim is a black man and a runaway slave, he is at the mercy of almost all the other characters in the novel and is often forced into ridiculous and degrading situations.
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No... He WAS a white American who freed the slaves
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His name is Jim Jeffries.
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James W.C. Pennington\n\nAfrican-American Minister, Teacher, Abolitionist\n\n\nThe man who made himself Dr. James William Charles Pennington was born Jim Pembroke, a slave in Maryland. Clearly an exceptionally intelligent young boy, he was apprenticed by his master to a stonemason and then to a blacksmith. When he was about twenty, altercations between his parents and their master, punctuated by savage whippings, made him determined to escape north to freedom. His journey was hair-raising, as slave catchers apprehended and held him for a time, though he managed a second escape. Eventually, travelling by the North Star, he made his way to Pennsylvania, where a Quaker harbored him and began his formal education.\n\nIn 1828 Pennington relocated to New York City, working as a blacksmith and attending school at night. Under the spiritual guidance of Dr. S.H. Cox, a Presbyterian minister, he cultivated a devout Christianity. And he began to involve himself in abolitionist activities as well, participating in several national conventions of free African-Americans in Philadelphia in the early 1830s. Here he met William Lloyd Garrison, Simeon S. Jocelyn and Lewis Tappan -- the latter two, of course, would be key associations in the abolitionist management of the Amistad Africans. And he began teaching in a school for black children in Newtown, Long Island.\n\nIn 1834 Pennington relocated again, to New Haven, where he audited classes at Yale and meanwhile became a pastor at the Temple Street Congregational Church. Within four years he completed his studies and was ordained a minister. He set up his first ministry back in Newtown, but moved several years later to Hartford, where he became minister of the black Congregational Church (also called the Talcott Street Church) and teacher at the church's school for African-American children. Under Pennington's leadership the church played a leading role in the abolitionist movement, hosting the Connecticut Anti-Slavery Society at one point, and in 1843 resolving to ban slaveholders from taking communion or taking the pulpit. He travelled widely through the state, meeting with other African-American ministers, and frequently delivered sermons in other churches, both black and white, while inviting ministers of both races to preach in the Talcott Street Church. \n\nPennington's brand of abolitionism was distinctly evangelical and closely tied to other moral reform movements. In 1833, while attending one of the national conventions of free blacks, he joined a call for the creation of temperance societies for African-Americans; thereafter he played a leading role in Connecticut's black temperance society. And while he firmly eschewed colonization schemes (which proposed returning freed American slaves to Africa), he did support efforts to send missionaries to Africa: his sense of African society was colored by a conviction that "benighted" Africans languishing (as he saw it) in semi-savage heathenism.\n\nOver the late-1830s and early-1840s Pennington frequently contributed to the Colored American, and after that paper folded he briefly edited his own paper, the Clarksonian. He also published sermons, addresses, and longer projects. In 1841 he wrote what has been described as the first history of African-America: A Text Book of the Origin and History &c. &c. of the Colored People -- though really it is a treatise on the pre-historical and historical evolution of race and blackness. His most enduring work, The Fugitive Blacksmith (1850), told of his boyhood in slavery and escape to freedom; it became one of the most important American slave narratives. \n\nPennington's autobiography publicly revealed his slave past (something he kept secret for years) just as a federal Fugitive Slave Law facilitated the recapture of runaways. One year after he publishedThe Fugitive Blacksmith, associates of Pennington arranged formally to buy his freedom from his former master's est
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Yes i do know him, but all to well. He was the one who came up with the idea of how to control blacks. This is what is meant by black following that old slave masters plan. People say that blacks should forget the past and move on. Black have move on, but they still follow his plan, by forgetting the past.\n\nHis plan was genius that the only reason they could control them for so long. His plan was to control them mentally, by cause them to enslave each other. If blacks knew this they would stop the habit that are hurting them. just because they know they are following the slave masters plan.
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Howdy,\n  1800's . If you will listen to the song "DIXIE" all the way through, You will here this is an old Irish song that the South adopted. In this song, on the second and third verse, Jim was a deciever, and His gal had a meat cleaver.
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It is issue of give and take. A slave needs to be alive to be a slave.The boss is ready to pay peanut in name of no profit,make him know your what or you work like a monkey.
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There is no book.  It's a purported speech from a slave owner named Willie Lynch, on how to ensure your slaves stay enslaved.  It is of dubious authenticity.  The source I mention deconstructs this speech.
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You're the mother of the son of Darwin!?!  Holy hail be unto thee blessed virgin(?) mother of our savior.  Wait...Jim wouldn't sacrifice his son...Nevermind.  We're screwed.  Could Jim adopt a kid and crucify him, and have it count?
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He would definitely complain about not being a vet but he would treat him. "I'm not sure Jim with his Wookie anatomy I could cure him or kill him, but I'll try."
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Well, we had an assignment that is like this one about the Scarlet Letter, there are a couple of themes in the story, Individual vs. Society, Nature vs. Society, and I think the other is individual vs. Self. According to my notes the Scarlet letter's themes are sin, knowledge, and the human condition. But anyways in the individual vs. society section there are three examples one is Society against Hester. (they dont like hester for sinning) the other is Society agains Pearl (people think that since Pearl is a sin born daughter she will also be a sinner) and lastly is Dimmsdale(Society thinks that he is a saint). Oh yeah another one could be society against Chillingworth (people think that he is bad and resembles the devil). FOr the nature vs. Society section you can say that there is a BIG difference between both since Dimmsdale acts one way with Pearl and Hester in the forest but another in the village.
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Are you kidding? Republicans did not free the slaves. Check your history... And I know Lincoln was a Republican, but he did not free the slaves. Read a book.
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Isn't that mark twain?\n\nI read that just this year but i basically forgot it because i read a lot of stuff. Does it have to do with a bar bet with frogs or a frog doing something and he doesn't do. Well I don't know but here's the story.
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highly educated slave
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I was "around " when Jim was alive! I know it is no use to try to explain it was a different world we lived in then. Society was in flux the culture was changing! He was relevant in his time and a nice person off stage! Movies are not true! They only Fictionalized one facet of his life. I miss him and Janice Joplin & Jimmy Hendrix but their time was up! He did have an otherworldly quilaty to his voice that comes through.
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Jefferson's personal records show he owned more than 650 slaves in his lifetime, some of whom were inherited from his parents and through his wife. Some find it hypocritical that he both owned slaves and yet was publicly outspoken in his belief that slavery was immoral. Many of his slaves were considered property that was held as a lien for his many accumulated debts.
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The book does contain offensive, racist language that was part of the 18th century repertoire, BUT the lessons Huck learns on his journey with the runaway slave Jim  more than make up for the language. Huck learns the importance of friendship, diversity, and respect. At first, he seems to follow the typical mentality of other characters in the book and doesn't think of Jim as an equal. However, through various incidents in the story, he comes to realize that Jim is a person with actual feelings. Huck discovers the true nature of human beings and learns to be a selfless and compassionate individual.  So, even though the language is not up to par with today's standards, I still think the book is worthy of study. Those who are offended by the language are right to be offended, but need to realize that the novel itself doesn't promote racism. Moreover, the novel is not "a boring old book."  For the "X-Box Generation" who can't read books without pictures, give it a try and let your mind create visual images rather than relying on flashy, computer generated characters to tell the story to you.