Still, a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest... 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. ... Like so Many of Twain's protagonists, both black and white, including Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Jim, Pap, The Boss, Pudd'nhead, Tom Driscoll, Chambers and Roxy, Sam Clemens was infected with a form of racism that has been with man since the beginning of time, or sin...

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