... the blacks, he actually admires them and their submissiveness, which is condescending on it's own, but he does not see them as fully human. "Captain Delano's nature was not only benign, but familiarly and humorously so" (41). He continuously refers to the blacks as animals, saying that Cereno is ... to serve and work for the whites. The idea of the blacks overpowering the whites was unheard of. Though "Benito Cereno" is a fictional story, it still has a very real context. San Dominick is a slave ship and is a part of the transatlantic slave trade, in which blacks were ... to Nathaniel Ha...

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... tears might have been more appropriate. This approach to the incongruities in American culture existed within Twain himself. He both romanticizes and criticizes the racial construction of American society. "A True Story- exhibits the cruelty and dehumanization faced by slaves, displaying Twain's sincere empathy concerning the "black condition."" But as evidenced throughout most of his longer works, we see Twain's ... legacy. As Clemens ages, and Twain's career progresses, it appears that the romanticism is increasingly replaced by a more virulent criticism of American genteel society, a...

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