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ince "dey wuz a nigger trader roun' de place considable, lately, en I begin to git oneasy" (Clemens 39). Huck, meanwhile, says he will not give Jim away, even though "people would call me a low down Abolitionist" (39). The point is that the text makes clear that the idea of freedom for slaves was sheer folly in popular imagination, something that only (say) adolescent boys enamored of action-adventure stories might take up as a possibility. Eliot's introduction

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