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The Resource Searching for Jim : slavery in Sam Clemens's world, Terrell Dempsey

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

Work
Publication
Extent
xvii, 316 pages
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
Isbn
9780826215932
Instance
Label
Searching for Jim : slavery in Sam Clemens's world
Title
Searching for Jim
Title remainder
slavery in Sam Clemens's world
Statement of responsibility
Terrell Dempsey
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Member of
Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
ZNO
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1954-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Dempsey, Terrell
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
LC call number
PS1342.S58
LC item number
D46 2005
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Mark Twain and his circle series
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Twain, Mark
  • Twain, Mark
  • Twain, Mark
  • Literature and society
  • Antislavery movements
  • Slavery
  • Slavery
  • Authors, American
  • Slavery in literature
  • Racism in literature
  • Hannibal (Mo.)
  • Hannibal (Mo.)
Label
Searching for Jim : slavery in Sam Clemens's world, Terrell Dempsey
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
1st paperback printing, 2001
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-303) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
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
Control code
64685748
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xvii, 316 pages
Isbn
9780826215932
Isbn Type
(pbk.)
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
Label
Searching for Jim : slavery in Sam Clemens's world, Terrell Dempsey
Publication
Copyright
Note
1st paperback printing, 2001
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-303) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
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
Control code
64685748
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xvii, 316 pages
Isbn
9780826215932
Isbn Type
(pbk.)
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations

Subject

Genre

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