Thinks I, this is what comes of my not thinking. Here was this nigger, which I had as good as helped to run away, coming right out flat-footed and saying he would steal his children—children that belonged to a man I didn’t even know; a man that hadn’t ever done me no harm.
The time that the book was written in is so apparent here. The "nigger" too is a human being, but Huck is more concerned about the slave owner losing his property than with thinking that Jim might want claim over his own kids
