... . Samuel Clemens also known as Mark Twain was definitively opposed to slavery, although it was a practice that he had become accustomed to his whole life. One of his most lasting childhood memories was a dozen black men and women chained together, waiting to be shipped downriver to the slave market at New Orleans. "Those,"" he said, "were the saddest faces I have ever seen- Burns ... 1872, say- What to do next? It was a monumentous question .I had gained a livelihood with various vocations, but had not dazzled anybody with my successes; still the list was before me, and the amplest liber...

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