Slavery in Mark Twain's the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Abstract The American literary Realism is a time during which Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was produced. It is declared by the vast majority of critics as a true representative of the White-supremacist American society, because Twain was successfully able to describe the undergoing of the American society during the Pre-Civil War era. Yet, the description was not the main point behind the writing of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain meant criticizing the racist mindsets of the white Americans and the hypocrite political systems of the country. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain propagates the idea of slavery as the most dominant theme running through the novel. Therefore, this New Historicist extended essay is intended to the aspects of the institution of slavery in settings, characters after providing a brief view over both slavery in America and the Civil- War as a historical