Pudd'nhead Wilson: Slavery

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is set
free.

The issue of slavery comes up throughout the novel. The reality of
slavery is shown in many places in the novel. There are two main aspects
of slavery dealt with most realistically in the novel: sex, and violence.
The reality of sex between slaveholder's and slaves is a main point in the
novel due to the fact that "Roxy", a black slave woman, conceives the child
of an influential white man. This almost certainly was a reality in the
ante-bellum south. For evidence of this one has to look no further than
one of the country's first presidents, Thomas Jefferson and his illicit
affair with a slave that produced some offspring. As for violence in the
novel Valet de Chambre is abused with beatings by his master, Tom, and in
one incident is stabbed with a pocket knife.

Most people today, except for a few stupid rednecks that must wear
white bags over their heads to keep the air from escaping their skulls,
believe that slavery is an immoral under any ...

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