Then he showed us another little job he'd printed and hadn't charged for, because it was for us. It had a picture of a runaway n***** with a bundle on a stick over his shoulder, and '$200 reward' under it. The reading was all about Jim, and just described him to a dot.

Then he showed us another little job he’d printed and hadn’t charged for, because it was for us. It had a picture of a runaway n***** with a bundle on a stick over his shoulder, and ‘$200 reward’ under it. The reading was all about Jim, and just described him to a dot.

– Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 20. Huck describes the wanted poster that the Duke had made for runaway slave Jim. This was so they could all travel buy day, and if anyone were to stop them concerning Jim, they could say they had captured him and were returning to his owners. Racism and slavery were very much part of society then.

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