The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

How had Jim been captured?

Chapter 31

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Jim, a runaway slave, was captured and sold to the Phelps family, down the road. Huck realizes that in an effort to make some money, the King had snuck back to the raft while he and the Duke had been searching for him, took Jim, sold him for forty dollars, and returned to the town to drink.

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