Post #2 On Freedom and Enslavement Huck Finn Chapters 16-22

In Chapter 16 as both characters (Huck and Jim) are approaching to Cairo, a free establishment they both tremble with excitement and fear.  Jim who is finally going to be free tells Huck all about his future plans to liberate his family, and Huck who hears this is a nervous train too.  For he feels that he did wrong by participating in the liberation of Jim, and has wronged the good christian women that Jim belonged to.  Though Huck is actions on freeing Jim are of physical actions, he is not free mentally from his conscience.  The type of way that Huck was feeling was understandable looking at where he was coming from, it was not common for white people to help free blacks. "Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom.  Well, i can tell you it made me all over trembly and feverish, too, to hear him, because I begun to get it through my head that he was most free" (Twain 109).  But, I feel that in a sense that Huck internally feels that by freeing Jim, he to will be freeing himself.  Through this chapter you can see a great deal of heroism when Huck lies to help Jim, a colored man who he was going to liberate.
For me the chapter 18 showed the foundation of slaves and  also how they help during any circumstances that comes there way no matter the situation that they are dealing with.  While at the Grangerford estate, Huck observes that all the family members depend on slaves.  Even Huck is given a slave to take care of his needs.  The root of the Grangerford family all lies in the slavery business, which helps to keep them wealthy.  It is a shame that though the family is rich and educated with "culture" their involvement of this practice (slavery) in my opinion overshadows that.  How can "good" people enact in inhumane business?  Unlike the other people in the household Huck does not treat his slave poorly (Buck), and this was probably observed by Jack, a slave that was living in the household.  One can guess that Jack sees this because he is the one to reunite Huck and Jim back together.  Jack was the one who helped with the raft and where to hide.  At that time that was all he could do, and he probably knew that he needed some reinforcement to help Jim.  So, when he sees Huck around that area he makes up a quick lie to lure him into the place of where Jim was hiding.  Jack did this all on his own "free" will and like Jim, yearned for freedom, but was not ready to act on it yet (like Huck freeing Jim also freed him, this is probably how Jack feels- if he can help Jim, an African American "free", then he is in some way helping himself and enslaved African America).  In the end of the chapter Huck and Jim depart, and in a sense Huck feels free when he is with Jim.  I can tell that he never felt this way with the other adults in his life.  "I never felt easy til the raft was two miles below there and out in the middle of Mississippi.  Then we hung up our signal lantern, and judged that we was free and safe one more" (Twain 139).  He felt "might free" on the raft alongside Jim.