How do the events in this chapter characterize raftsmen?

The first thing to notice about the raftsmen is that they are middle to lower class people. The upper class usually go on the bigger steam boats and not on the rafts. After that one of the steamboats completely ran into Huck's raft and didn't even stop at all to make sure everything was okay shows that the raftsmen aren't very "important". However the raftsmen are good and responsible people and they try and help others when needed. Huck doesn't like the people on the bigger steamboats and the upper class as much as the raftsmen. Huck likes how they live their life and how they have their own rules. Although the raftsmen are generally characterized lower than everyone else that doesn't mean they are bad people at all.