olitionists were not well
             accepted because the economy would collapse without the slave based agriculture. Rudyard Kipling wrote at the end of that
             century "The White Man's Burden," (643) that was taken to mean that blacks must accept their position as underlings. While
             a false interpretation, it shows that many Confederates and sympathisers held the view that blacks and slaves deserved to be
             oppressed even after the Civil War (1861-1864).
             TAOTS accurately reflects the small town economy. The river trade is the centre of all commerce and without it, town life
             would end. In Chapter Two of TAOTS, Ben Rogers, a local boy, pretends to be a steamboat. This exemplifies how
             important the boats were to the town. Everything in the town--the mill, the taverns--they all depended on the trade from the
             river. The town, consisting of a church, a school, a general store, taverns a mill and a docking area for the boats also reflect
             how important the river really was. The minister's fire and brimstone sermons (35) preach against the evils of drink,
             gambling and lust, all of which would have been demonstrated by the passing river sailors and conmen.
             In the AOHF, the town life is not so much the focus of description as river life. But it is the description of the treatment of
             slaves that truly stands out. Huck was poor, but still he was socially above Jim because he was white and not owned.
             TAOHF was set a few decades before the civil war so when Huck and Jim escaped down the
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