First, it had for me a citizen, but I was too young then to really hurt the place Schmidt (2002). He was christened Samuel Langhorne Clemens "Samuel was his paternal grandfather's name, Langhorne the family name of old friends of his father's "but in his early years, because of his size and fragility, everyone called him "Little Sammy- Burns (2001). .
Sam remembered Hannibal as "a boy's paradise."" In [Hannibal] when I was a boy, "he remembered, "everybody was poor but didn't know it; and everybody-.
was comfortable and did not know it. In the nearby oak forests, he and his young friends pretended to be Indians or pirates, Robin Hood and his Merry Men, and, later, .
treasure hunters like the hopeful young men who began streaming through Hannibal after gold was discovered in California. The boys explored deep limestone cave where the corpse of a fourteen-year-old girl was preserved for a time in a copper cylinder, and where a local ne'er-do-well named Injun Joe was said once to have gotten lost, surviving only on bats Burns (2001).
It was the following observation of the realization about the wrongs of slavery that stayed with Clemens while wring such stories as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
As a young boy, Sam saw his father administering a beating to Jennie, the Clemenses' only slave, for talking back to her mistress; later the boy wept when she was sold down the river Burns (2001). All that can be experienced in youth is nothing, to what is learned -.
in it. Although Slavery, before the Civil War (1861-1865) was a largely economical practice, it was still thought of as a betrayal of humanity, by many people. 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.