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Searching for Jim: Slavery in Sam Clemen's World (Mark Twain and His Circle Series) by Terrell Dempsey; ProQuest (Firm) is a biography available to read on EtoBox.

What is Searching for Jim: Slavery in Sam Clemen's World (Mark Twain and His Circle Series) about?

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 revealing that Clemens’s life, from the ages of twelve to seventeen, was intertwined with the lives of the slaves around him. During Sam’s earliest years, his father, John Marshall Clemens, had significant interaction with

Who reads Searching for Jim: Slavery in Sam Clemen's World (Mark Twain and His Circle Series)?

Author

Terrell Dempsey; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

University of Missouri Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826214850

Category

biography

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Literary Criticism

Updated

2026-03-25