... fetches a doctor, even though he knows that he will probably be captured and forced back into slavery. Believing that Tom would do the same for him if he wer in that situation, Jims says, "Ef it wuz him dat "uz bein" sot free, en one er de boys wuz to git shot, would he say, "Go on en save me, nemmine "bout ... his black friend." (Salwen) Throughout the years, hundreds of critics have dwelled on the controversy over the racial representation in Huckleberry Finn. Booker T. Washington, who has known Samuel clemens for a number of years, believed Clemens" interest in the Negro race is expr...

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