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

Publication Info.	Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2005.
	©2003

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Description	xvii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series	Mark Twain and his circle series
	Mark Twain and his circle series.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-303) and index.
Note	1st paperback printing, 2001.
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.
Subject	Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Political and social views.
	Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Homes and haunts -- Missouri -- Hannibal.
	Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Slavery -- Missouri -- Hannibal -- History -- 19th century.
	Hannibal (Mo.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
	Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
	Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Family.
	Hannibal (Mo.) -- Social conditions.
	Slavery in literature.
	Racism in literature.
ISBN	0826215939
	9780826215932

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