ally shows the disrespect that the white culture has for the black race. The impecunious "white trash", feels threatened by the successful black man; Pap defensively remarks that this "nigger" should be sold, thereafter his status insecurities turn into social satisfaction. Pap feels vulnerable that a "piece of property" is superior to him; this quote signifies that poor white people were socially superior to successful blacks. The reader learns that not matter how affluent, blacks could not s!
             Additionally, readers learn history about the treatment of blacks through Twain's exposure of slavery. Black slaves are property of their masters, who commonly buy and sell slaves. Miss Watson, a slave-owner in the novel, owns a family of slaves. The loving father of that family, Jim, over hears Miss Watson speak of selling him to a slave trader, "Well, one night I creeps to de do; pooty late, en de do' warn't quite shet, en I hear ole missus tell de widder she gwyne to sell me down to Orleans, but she did' wan to, but she could git eight hundid dollars for me, en it 'uz suck a big stack o' money she couldn' resis'." (Page 51-53) Afraid of never seeing his family again, Jim flees from
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