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Mark Twain

, a Racist? was a man that was way ahead of his time. In a time when people were judged on color, grew up in Florida, Missouri (Mandelbrot, Twain). In Missouri and Louisiana combined there were less than one half a million white persons (Chang, Twain p. 21). Which meant the black population was abundant. While growing up Twain had no telegraph, no railroads, no stage lines of any consequence (Twain, www.marktwain.com). Also maps were scarcely ever found. So Twain didn’t really get to communicate with different people that were outside his little town. Twain was a sixth child so he had many siblings to look up too.When Twain was young he was kept indoors mostly because of his poor ...

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of weird, fantastic impressions and many contradictory influences. Like his father never really being there for his kids.
All of the children of that time were fond of the Negroes and confined in them. They would, in fact, have been lost without such protection and company. Slave punishment; too was not unknown, even in the household. Sometimes the punishment would be that their hands would be tied together with a bridle rein, and administered astisement across the shoulders with a cowhide. These were things all calculated to impress a sensitive child. This was commonplace enough for that time and locality.When Twain was 12 years old his father died. Then at age thirteen Twain dropped out of school. Because he grew up in a port city he had more job opportunities. His jobs consisted of numerous printing jobs and a river pilots apprentice, and then later on he became a licensed river pilot in 1858. Clemens’ pseudonym, comes from his river pilot days.All the games and the ...

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Added: 12/3/2005 05:01:14 PM
Category: Biographies
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