The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Why re the men so hard on Jim? Why do they think about hanging him?

Chapters 40-41

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Jim is black and he is a runaway slave. They want to punish Jim for running away and make an example of him, by hanging, to other slaves who might want to run away.

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