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Index
Abolitionist movement, 118 -19
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: as
boy's book, xii - xiii ; controversy
over, xi - xii, 29 - 31 ; episodic struc-
ture of, 1 - 3 ; as first truly American
novel, xiii - xiv ; objections to teach-
ing of, 35 - 40 ; point of view in, 3 - 4,
37, 107 ; publication of, 74 ; unifying
elements in, 1 - 2, 3
African Americans: treatment of, as
freed slaves, 123 -28, 168 -71; treat-
ment of, on western frontier, 53 ;
Twain's portrayal of, 37 - 38. See
also Slavery
Alcohol, and frontier violence, 67 - 68
Anderson, Elijah, "The Code of the
Streets," 218 -19
Antebellum culture: contradictions of,
17 - 23, 177 -81, 186 -89; dueling
and code of honor in, 178, 180,
181, 183 -84, 185, 189 -91; fascina-
tion with royalty and titles in, 181 -
83; feuding and clannishness in,
180 -81; the Walter Scott as symbol
of, 177, 182 ; Walter Scott's influ-
ence on, 17 - 18, 177 -81, 186 -89,
192
Anti-intellectualism, satire on, 54, 108
Boggs, murder of, 8 - 9, 16, 19
Brown, John, 121
Brownlow, Reverend W. G., pro-
slavery argument of, 132 -37
Cable, George Washington, 127 ; The
Silent South, 168 -71
Civil disobedience: and conscience,
156, 158 -59; and Fugitive Slave
Law, 122 -23, 156 -60; and Vietnam
War, 164 -67
Civilization: barbaric contradictions of,
17 - 23, 177 -81, 186 -89; as repre-
sented by Grangerford household,
18 - 19 ; as represented by Miss
Watson, 17 ; as represented by the
Walter Scott, 17 - 18 ; role playing
and pretense in, 20 - 23. See also
Antebellum culture; Frontier
Clemens, Samuel. See Twain, Mark
Code of honor, 19 - 21 ; in antebellum

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