Searching for Jim : slavery in Sam Clemens's world / Terrell Dempsey.
2003
PS1342.S58 D46 2003 (Mapit)
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Title
Searching for Jim : slavery in Sam Clemens's world / Terrell Dempsey.
Author
Dempsey, Terrell, 1954-
ISBN
0826214851 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2003.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 316 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
PS1342.S58 D46 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification
818/.409 B
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-303) and index.
Series
Mark Twain and his circle series
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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.
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.