Searching for Jim : slavery in Sam Clemens's world /
"Searching for Jim" is the untold story of Sam Clemens and the world of slavery that produced him. Despite Clemens's remarks to the contrary in his autobiography, slavery was very much a part of his life. Dempsey has uncovered a wealth of newspaper accounts and archival material revea...
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
©2003.
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| Series: | Mark Twain and his circle series.
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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.