i wonder if you can get a brief time line so that we have more of a context when she wrote the book but other things happened like the fugitive slave act, the dred scott decision john brown was causing havoc and so forth. estimate what happened in 1850 s the fugitive slave law which is a closely for a lot because the fugitive slaves when they come to the north if you and capture them and held turn them into the south it is jail and a fine which back then was a lot of money, and it is a really bad thing. she got really mad about that. her sister-in-law you know once you go back and write a novel she says you know i m going to come and she did. and but then what happens however is there are a series of other laws after that. the kansas nebraska act, the dred scott decision which says african-americans can never be free in the united states they have no rights whatsoever and she got not just angry but very honest, very bitter and when she writes her novel another antislavery n
berkeley. he describes the work in preparing the autobiography of mark twain, volume one published 100 years after the author s death. also discussing his thoughts on the book s success and responds to the criticism that the book has received. this hour and 20 minute event was hosted by the university of california berkeley osher lifelong learning institute at the lafayette library and learning center. robert came to uc berkeley in 1963. he was a student. four years later people seeing his promise offered him a job. he has been there ever since. in 1949 the granddaughter of mark twain dave uc-berkeley the material that is in the are, archive. in 1980 robert became that general editor of these archives. in 2005 we began the process of putting together the volume, the first volume. i know many of you have already seen it. there will be three volumes. there is a tremendous amount of excitement associated at uc press and with all of us who love of role that mark twain has p