... laws were set up in order to maintain the divisions between black and white. Two elements from the time of Reconstruction and Post- Reconstruction were the so called Jim Crow Laws meant to segregate Whites from Blacks and the Order of the Ku Klux Klan, which maintained white supremacy through terror. However, the setting of the novel was in 1830, a period called "Ante Bellum-, which ... was the time before Civil War and the time of slavery. Slaves were seen as dependent, inferior to the white race and without any civil rights. In these years Mark Twain was still a boy. I can imagine him...

• Word Count: 3258
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School