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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain is an American classic. It tells the story of how the abused white boy Huck and the runaway black slave Jim teamed up to escape their circumstances.

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Initial efforts to locate a 19th century anti-slavery scroll were unsuccessful — until they looked in a church closet.