... of 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 ... master and slave, the free and the not free, those who are pardoned and those who are punished. (Gillman, pp. 68-69) Both Tom Driscoll and Roxana are products of an interracial mixture that is denied by social custom. This denial encourages self-deception, ultimately drawing Roxana into...

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