The Treatments of Black Slave before and after Abolition in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Abstract

The aim of this study is to find out the treatments of black slave before and after abolition in Twain’s novel. Through this research, the writer wants to explain the treatments of black slave before and after abolition and what the effects of slavery for blacks are, after abolition. This is a descriptive analytical study. The writer uses two kinds of data, the primary data are taken from the Mark Twain’s novel while the secondary data are taken from references in the libraries and references from internet. The result of this study reveals that the treatments of black slave before and after abolition are not too different. Moreover, the effects of slavery for black people after abolition were segregation in many ways. The segregation that was doing by whites, trigger blacks to make a movement to get their right. Their movement resulted the Civil Right Act in 1964 that support the right of blacks in all aspects