... something awkward." (Smith) A review of Twain's Civil War record also "sheds some light on his Southern feelings about defending slavery and toward what he called the white "tainted aristocracy"." (Smith) In 1877, at a banquet honoring Union veterans, Twain asked this question: "What was the fighting all about, anyhow?" 2 This hardly seems the war cry of a die hard Southerner, but rather the feelings of a desouthernized Southerner. Twain's feelings about ... than that of a white person, and Huck grows up debating that reality. It is a barrier at first between himself and Jim- the slave-...

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