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Author:

Dempsey, Terrell, 1954-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Missouri Press,

Copyright Date:

2005, c2003

Description:

xvii, 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Twain, Mark,--1835-1910--Political and social views.
Twain, Mark,--1835-1910--Homes and haunts--Hannibal.--Hannibal.
Twain, Mark,--1835-1910--Family.
Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
Slavery--Hannibal--Hannibal--History--19th century.
Slavery--United States--History--19th century.
Authors, American--19th century.--Biography.
Slavery in literature.
Racism in literature.
Hannibal (Mo.)--Intellectual life--19th century.
Hannibal (Mo.)--Social conditions.

Notes:

1st paperback printing, 2001. Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-303) and index.

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.

Series:

Mark Twain and his circle series

ISBN:

9780826215932
0826215939

OCLC:

(OCoLC)64685748

Locations:

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

LOAX706 -- Library, Eastern Iowa CC (Muscatine)