... black Americans, who didn't "give up the road."" Like so Many of Twain's protagonists, both black and white, including Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Jim, Pap, The Boss, Pudd'nhead, Tom Driscoll, Chambers and Roxy, Sam Clemens was infected with a form of racism that has been with man since the beginning of ... Roxana begins to suffer. Her child, now her master, becomes a sickly and pernicious person who takes particular delight in treating Roxana with open contempt. In short, she becomes "the dupe of her own deceptions."" (Brodwin, pp. 336-337) The argument between nature and nurture becomes ac...

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