Haliburton Created Sam Slick To Voice His Own Positions
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“Literature…is the voice of the people. Through its literature, the life, the soul of a people may be known.”
Thomas Chandler Haliburton is the perfect example of an historian and author who tells the life and soul of a people through his literature. More than just great literature, however ....
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.... Slick was for Haliburton the perfect foil to the typical Nova Scotian’s laziness, lack of enterprise and obsession with colonial politics. What made Slick so highly popular was that the stories were written in an episodic format as a series of homilies that could stand on their own. More important even than that is that the lesser characters never overshadow the central theme of the episode; there is no personality (other than Slick) that outweighs the message or that is not easily recogn ....
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