Southern Reconstruction had fallen into disarray, and a new racism of segregation and condoned inequality replaced the slavery that had been abolished with the Emancipation Proclamation. Despite the end of the Civil War in 1865, it was a tumultuous time for America. Huck was already well known to an American audience thirsting for more of Twain's brand of humor, and Twain hoped to capitalize on his recent literary successes. After deciding that Tom was unfit to narrate the book, Twain chose Tom's counterpart, the disreputable Huckleberry Finn. In 1876, the same year as the publication of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain began work on another boy's tale of adventure along the Mississippi.
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