It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a n*****; but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn’t done that one if I’d a knowed it would make him feel that way.
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 15. Huck was raised to be racist so it takes him a while to apologize to a black man like Jim for lying to him. 13-year-old Huck sees the runaway slave in a different way, plays no more pranks on him and they become friends as they sail down the Mississippi to reach a state where slavery is illegal.