In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, events throughout the novel suggest that Huck is racist towards Jim, Miss Watson's runaway slave, whether he knows it or No. Although Huck travels with Jim, he is not interested in freeing him from slavery. As a result, Twain's purpose is more focused on the adventures Huck and Jim experience rather than Jim's liberation. Throughout the novel, Huck travels with Jim even though he never has a plan to free him. First of all, Huck runs away from his dad and Jim runs away from Miss Watson, who tries to sell Jim into slavery. They meet on Jackson's Island and spend some time there on the island, but when a search party is sent out to look for Huck, the pair heads south on a long, aimless road trip novel. During their travels, Jim and Huck encounter two criminals, who both claim to be from a royal family (one a king, the other a duke). In their first meeting, the king and the duke ask Huck if Jim is a runaway and he says "Good heavens! Would a runaway nigger run south?" (113).When Huck tells this lie to the King and the Duke, he is showing that he has no intention of freeing Jim. This is because if Huck had intended to free Jim, Huck would have led Jim north to a slave-free state, above all because Missouri borders Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, and Kansas, which were all free territories. Not to mention that the conditions of the slaves only get worse the further south they go. Secondly, later in the novel, the king and the duke sell Jim back into slavery. At this point Huck can no longer deal with the two criminals, so he abandons them. Huck is shocked by Jim's disappearance, so he decides to come up with a plan and free Jim , who happens to be at Tom Sawyer's house... in the middle of the newspaper... out of his racist ways Huck is only interested in going around and having adventures, not freeing Jim from slavery slavery, he only does it because Jim is a prisoner and has no one to spend time with. If Huck had truly cared about Jim as much as adventures, he would have traveled north to Illinois, where Jim would have been safe. Works Cited Lester, Julius. "The Morality and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Case Study in Critical Controversy. Ed. Graff, Gerald and James Phelan. Boston and New York: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1995. 349-359. Print.Smiley, Jane. “Say It Ain’t So, Huck,” Harper’s Magazine, January 1996: 61-67. Print.Walrath, Norma. “Huckleberry Finn” “Rationales for Commonly Challenged Taught Books.” Connecticut English Journal 15.1 (1983): 145-148. Press