... during his antebellum childhood on the Mississippi that were slowly fractured, but never completely expunged, as he matured intellectually. In Hannibal, Missouri (as well as the rest of America) the romanticism of slavery and genteel white society was a charade that was best left a charade so that the civilization could operate without a catastrophic rending of the existing social fabric. Violence and ... of his longer works, we see Twain's continual embrace of the overtly racist, albeit internally contradictory, minstrel show legacy. As Clemens ages, and Twain's career progresses, it ap...

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