Slavery during the Time of the Setting of Huckleberry Finn

These sites from the Public Broadcasting Service offer a discussion of racism in Twain’s works:
Slavery and Other Darkness
http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/scrapbook/01_tom_sawyer/page5.html

Teaching Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huck Finn
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/teachers/huck/essay.html
Mark Twain’s America
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/authors_corner/jan-june97/fishkin_4-11.html#me

Born to Trouble: Adventures of Huck Finn
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/beyond/huck.html

Mark Twain: an Online NewsHour Special Report
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/jan-june01/twain.html

About the Book, from Teacher’s Guide to Culture Shock: Born to Trouble: Adventures of Huck Finn
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/teachers/huck/aboutbook.html

Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huck Finn
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/literature/huck_a.html

Additional Web sites:
Slave Narratives
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/index.html

Blackface Minstrelsy in Twain
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/minstrl.html

African Slave Trade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_slave_trade
Encylopedia article with links about the African Slave Trade.