Featuring the brilliantly drawn Roxanna, a mulatto slave who suffers dire consequences after switching her infant son with her master’s baby, and the clever P

Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) is a novel by American writer Mark Twain. Its central intrigue revolves around two boys--one, born into slavery, the other, white, born

Hoping to ensure a better life for her child, a young slave woman exchanges her light-skinned baby for her master's.