Should Color Effect the Way People Think of Others?

 Should color effect the way people think of others? In Huckleberry Finn, color was a major problem. The time period the book is based off of is a major time for slaves. Ever since Huckleberry and the runaway slave, Jim, met, there was a special bond between them. After Jim told Huck he was a runaway slave (eight pages into chapter 8), Huck promised “I ain't a-going to tell, and I ain't a-going back there”.  Color should not matter. Someone should not be treated differently just because of their skin color. Because of the use of slaves, blacks were treated differently. “They asked us considerable many questions; wanted to know what we covered up the raft that way for, and laid by in the daytime instead of running – was Jim a runaway nigger?” (first page of chapter 20). Jim had to sneak around, because he was a slave.  If he got caught, he would be sold back into slavery to do hard labor work.  He was not treated equally to the other men; he was treated like a varlet.  Derogatory names, such as nigger, were often used to insult slaves. A person is a person no matter what they look like, and they still have the same emotions.  They also have the ability to have as much wits as each race. I feel like everyone should be treated the same and not based off the color of their skin.