This intriguing work tackles the seminal American issue of slavery in an antebellum tragicomedy of switched identities, as a freeborn child and a slave child change places. The result is a biting social commentary - plus a good old-fashioned murder mystery...
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"Mark Twain, in his presentation of Negroes as human beings, stands head and shoulders above the other Southern writers of his times."--Langston Hughes
