 where Twain sets him up very early so that we see that not all African Americans are slaves at that time in the 19th century. There were freemen, folks born totally free, like Poet Anne Plato. And then you had, of course, slaves. And then there is Huck. And the two of them have to be together in order for those changes to occur, not only to Huck, but for Jim to come through and assert