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Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Born and Raised

• Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
• Born on November 30, in the small river town of Florida, Missouri, just miles from Indian Territory.
• He was the 6th child of John Marshall Clemens and Jane Lampton
• Twain lived in Florida, Missouri until the age of four, at which time his family relocated to Hannibal in hopes of improving their living situation.

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Hannibal and Slavery

• By lineage,Twain was a Southerner, as both his parents' families hailed from Virginia.
• The slaveholding community of Hannibal, a river town with a population of , provided a mix of rugged frontier life and the Southern tradition, a lifestyle that influenced Twain's later writings, including the Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

• Few black slaves actually resided in Hannibal, and the small farms on the delta were no comparison to the typical Southern plantation.
• In Hannibal, blacks were mostly held as household servants rathe