Self Sacrifice and Humility

References to Huck's self-sacrifice for Jim, are, I'm sure, preceded by instances of Jim's self-sacrifice for Huck. Can't Jim more efficiently and quietly slip down the river without having to baby sit Huck?

Reading Howard Thurman's Jesus and the Disinherited, he makes this point:

When faced with oppression from power, there are alternatives:

Non-resistance.
Resistance.

Jesus chose a form of resistance, but an entirely new form: humility.

"humility cannot be humiliated" is quoted from Vladimir Simkhovitch's Toward the Understanding of Jesus.

One who is truly humble has possibly attained no vulnerability to fear.

Is it worth looking at Jim as one whose entire strength in dealing with his singular journey to escape and reunite with his family comes from humility? Where would this humility have come from? Is it the same quality that Jesus embodied?

So are there signs, in each of the encounters that Twain chronicles of Jim, of this humility as the source of strength?

Chapter 8

Huck encounters Jim on Jackson's Island, and immediately, and without hesitation, offers Jim all that he has to eat.