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Searching for Jim : slavery in Sam Clemens's world / Terrell Dempsey.
Van Pelt Library PS1342.S58 D46 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dempsey, Terrell, 1954-
- Series:
- Mark Twain and his circle series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Political and social views.
- Twain, Mark.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Homes and haunts--Missouri--Hannibal.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
- Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.
- Literature and society.
- Families.
- Slavery.
- History.
- Political and social views.
- United States.
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- Slavery--Missouri--Hannibal--History--19th century.
- Slavery--United States--History--19th century.
- Authors, American--19th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Missouri--Hannibal.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Family.
- Hannibal (Mo.)--Social conditions.
- Hannibal (Mo.).
- Slavery in literature.
- Racism in literature.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 316 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2003]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-303) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0826214851
- OCLC:
- 52471884
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