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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
About this work
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.*
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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