A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It by Mark Twain

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The story begins by introducing "Aunt Rachel," a sixty-year-old "colored" servant who is described as "a cheerful hearty soul". The narrator, identified only as "Misto C----," recalls unintentionally incurring Rachel's wrath by asking, "Aunt Rachel, how is it that you've lived sixty years and never had any trouble?" This question prompts Rachel's story—in Twain's characteristic dialect—about watching as her entire family is sold at a slave auction: "An' dey sole my ole man, an' took him away, an' dey began to sell my chil'en an' take dem away, an' I begin to cry; an' de man say, 'Shet up yo' dam blubberin', an' hit me on de mouf wid his han'" . Rachel goes on to lament that of her seven children, she has seen only one since that day.

Mark Twain was a talented writer, speaker and humorist whose own personality shined through his work. As his writing grew in popularity, he became a public figure and iconic American whose work represents some of the best in the genre of Realism. As the young country grew in size but not in a cultural manner to the liking of the European gentry, it became fashionable to criticize "the ugly American.”

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