Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Description:

A young slave woman attempting to protect her son from the horrors of slavery, switches her light-skinned infant with the master's white son. *This novel features a literary first — the use of fingerprinting to solve a crime.*

subjects: Passing (Identity),  Race relations,  Trials (Murder),  Impostors and imposture,  Open Library Staff Picks,  Slavery,  Fiction,  Infants switched at birth,  Twins,  Conjoined twins,  Large type books,  Missouri, fiction,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, historical,  Fiction, legal,  Slaves, fiction,  Twins, fiction,  American literature,  Satire, american,  Fiction, historical, general,  Fiction, suspense,  African americans, fiction,  Lawyers,  Literature and fiction, historical fiction,  Enslaved persons, fiction,  Crime, fiction,  Fiction, general,  Classics,  Advertising,  Impostors and imposture -- Fiction,  Missouri -- Fiction,  Trials (Murder) -- Fiction,  Legal stories,  Race relations -- Fiction,  Infants switched at birth -- Fiction,  Passing (Identity) -- Fiction

People: Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Places: Missouri,  United States,  fictional Missouri frontier town of Dawson's Landing

Times: 1800-1850