History and adventures of huckleberry fun

By silver_cougar4061

Hey everyone! I’m pretty new to reading books and audiobooks (I never really bothered with it when I was younger), so I feel like I missed a lot of history stuff. I just finished *Huckleberry Finn* and I’m honestly obsessed with the story—but I have a few questions. I started looking things up online and I’m not really getting clear answers. From what I understand, Huck escapes from Illinois and is headed south toward Louisiana, right? But why would he go south if the South is mostly where slavery was? I always thought in most history I remember that people ran north to get away from slavery. I also tried to figure out which states were free at the time. I saw stuff saying Wisconsin was a free state back then, so I’m confused why Huck wouldn’t just head there since Illinois and Wisconsin are really close. And then it made me wonder about the whole Underground Railroad idea—did enslaved people actually use train systems, and if so, where did those escape routes go? I found a couple maps online, but they’re basically arrows everywhere and I can’t tell what’s supposed to be happening. I got as far as that, and then I just didn’t know what else to search for. Any insight would be awesome, and let me know if I should’ve posted this somewhere else.