... as a journalist and later as an author. His first popular book was "Innocents Abroad- (1869), followed by "Tom Sawyer- and "Huckleberry Finn- (1876). "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson- (1894) was one of his last novels. After this novel was published Twain had to experience a series of painful experiences within his family life. For the following years Twain's literature became rather dull and negative. One ... order to maintain the divisions between black and white. Two elements from the time of Reconstruction and Post- Reconstruction were the so called Jim Crow Laws meant to segregate...

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