Something astonishing happens when Frederick Douglass, one of America's greatest voices for freedom, tries to set the record straight about Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He gets pulled into the story and becomes part of the adventure, inhabiting the role of the runaway slave, Jim. An entertaining whirligig of a play, Splittin' the Raft melds Mark Twain's humor, Frederick Douglass' brilliant language, traditional spirituals, and provocative ideas about race relations in America to create a powerful and illuminating theatrical event.