> > 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