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[ The Hanged Nigger ]. He raped and murdered a girl of 13 in the woods. He confessed to forcing 3 young women in Va, and was brought away in a feather bed to save his life—which was a valuable property.
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Mark Twain made these notes about the people of Hannibal, Missouri, in late July or early
August 1897, during a summer stay in Weggis, Switzerland. Hannibal, on the Mississippi River, had barely a thousand
inhabitants when Clemens’s family settled there in November 1839, a few weeks before his fourth birthday. 
