orant slave who converses with hairballs and boasts of being kidnapped by witches (16-26). But when the culture of the time period is researched, one encounters such plethora of evidence of these magical practices that Jim's behavior becomes valid. In an essay entitled "Conjure,"
             Because of the onslaught of brainwasing by the slaveholding community, Huck accomplishes a formidable feat when he reject's its philosophies. His first decision to accept Jim as his companion for travel illustrates Huck's debunking of the preconceived notion of "slavery's refusal to s
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