>
> Not everyone was Pap. In fact, Miss Watson (who is depicted as a
> respectable person, if not a nice one) is known to have held a person as
> enslaved.
>
No characters resident in St.Petersburg or anywhere on the river are
depicted as abolitionists -- not even Judge Thatcher, who is held up as
just and fair -- until Jim makes his statement about being willing to
liberate his family, basically, by any means necessary.
DDD