In Chapter 15, pg. 115, Jim was speaking in this passage to Huckleberry Finn saying ,“Dat truck dah is trash; en trash is what people is dat puts dirt on de head er dey fren’s en makes ’em ashamed.” Huckleberry Finn had fell asleep and played a trick on Jim. Jim didn't know whether Huckleberry Finn was dead or alive and took his joke seriously. This was a turning point in the novel because Huckleberry Finn realized the compassion Jim has for their friendship and that Jim has feelings. Huckleberry Finn says, ”It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither… I wouldn’t done that if I’d a knowed it would make him feel that way”. Huckleberry Finn feels and knows that the way he treated Jim wasn’t fair because Jim cares about him as his friend regardless of their social discrepancies. I can compare this to Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott in Chapter 2, pg. 14, when Christie says, “But I don’t like that way, and I won’t have it. I suppose Katy thought her white skin gave her a right to be disrespectful to a woman old enough to be her mother just because she was black. I don’t; and while I’m here, there must be no difference made. If we can work together, we can eat together; and because you have been a slave is all the more reason I should be good to you now.” Christie expresses her feelings towards racism and the laws abided by slaves. She also has been thoughtful and respectful to Hempsey despite human racial barriers.

In “The Deliverance”, Harper depicts Mister Thomas as being good to the slaves over the course of the poem. The relationship between Mister Thomas and the slaves seems positive compared to the Old Mistus and Old Mister (his parents). Chloe evidently feels that her owners were slave masters but had a handsome decent child at the