Searching for Jim slavery in Sam Clemens's world
Record details
- ISBN: 0826264395 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780826264398 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0826214851
- ISBN: 9780826214850 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0826214851 (alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (xvii, 316 p.) : ill. - Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2003.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-303) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
Action Note: | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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