Mark+Twain-Ian

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==Mark Twain is my "I am" person. His distinctive and intriguing style of writing caused my sincere interest towards him. I know that he is one of the most famous american writers of all time. He wrote books like the Prince and the Pauper, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and The Adventures of Huckleberry fin. I also know that he was a writer from the American civil war era. While researching, I figured out that he might have had some effects on the people in Civil War, and also, I wondered about how he would have been affected by the Civil War. However, as I researched, there was too little information present that I could rely on. Therefore, I have changed my question about a topic that I could acquire a lot of information from the world wide web.==


 * My primary historical question is...."Did Mark Twain oppose from slavery**? **"**

=Primary Sources= Document- "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," "The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin," and "The Prince and the Pauper" Audio- Unavailable Visual**-http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1819876_1732969,00.html- Mark Twain's photo gallary It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain If you have nothing to say, say nothing. - Mark Twain The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole life - time, if not asked to lend money. - Mark Twain Always do right! This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain The skin of every human being contains a slave. - Notebook, 1904
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The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name. - //A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court//

Man is the only Slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living. - "The Lowest Animal"

=**Secondary Sources **= Mark Twain grew up in Missouri, a slave state. His father was a judge, but he was also traded in slaves at times. His uncle, John Quarles, owned 20 slaves; so Mark Twain witnessed the practice of slavery first-hand whenever he spent summers at his uncle's place.

When he was still a young boy, Mark Twain witnessed the brutal murder of a slave in his home town of Hannibal by the slave's owner, who killed the man with a thrown rock for "merely doing something awkward."

Mark Twain - Views on Slavery


 * In a 1853 letter, Mark Twain wrote: "I reckon I had better black my face, for in these Eastern states, n***s are considerably better than white people."**


 * **In 1872,** **Mark Twain****wrote to William Dean Howells about "Roughing It": "I am as uplifted and reassured by it as a mother who has given birth to a white baby when she was awfully afraid it was going to be a mulatto."**


 * In his autobiography,
 * Mark Twain


 * **In 1904,** **Mark Twain** **wrote in his notebook: "The skin of every human being contains a slave."**


 * **In __[|A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court]__,** **Mark Twain** **wrote: "The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name."**

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 * **In "The Lowest Animal,"** **Mark Twain**** wrote: "Man is the only Slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.
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