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Searching for Jim : slavery in Sam Clemens's world /

Main Author: Dempsey, Terrell, 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2003.
Series:Mark Twain and his circle series
Subjects:
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Political and social views.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Homes and haunts > Missouri > Hannibal.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Family.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910.
Literature and society > History > 19th century. > United States
Antislavery movements > History > 19th century. > United States
Slavery > History > 19th century. > Missouri > Hannibal
Slavery > History > 19th century. > United States
Authors, American > 19th century
Slavery in literature.
Racism in literature.
Authors, American > 19th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Antislavery movements.
Authors, American.
Families.
Homes.
Intellectual life.
Literature and society.
Political and social views.
Slavery.
Social conditions
Slavernij.
Hannibal (Mo.) > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Hannibal (Mo.) > Social conditions.
Missouri > Hannibal.
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Table of Contents:
  • A performance : Spring 1891, Hartford, Connecticut
  • 1839
  • Slavery and the Clemens family
  • The abolition movement across the river
  • The contest begins
  • The trial of Thompson, Work, and Burr
  • Judge John Marshall Clemens
  • Slavery and the churches of Hannibal
  • The theology of slavery
  • The face of domestic slavery in Hannibal
  • The siege begins
  • The emancipation and colonization movement
  • 1849 and 1850 : terror in Marion County
  • Sam Clemens and the press in slave culture
  • Runaway slaves and slave resistance
  • Battling abolitionists in the press : the enemy without
  • Dehumanizing the slave in the press
  • The slave trade in Hannibal
  • Leaving Hannibal and taking a swipe at the abolitionists
  • The great change : the railroad
  • Steamboating days
  • Sam Clemens comes back to fight.

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