The reintegration of slaves, African Americans, had failed and certain laws were set up in order to maintain the divisions between black and white. ... In these years Mark Twain was still a boy. ... Although she is black one doesn't notice it at first site because only one-sixteenth of her is of black. ... Only one sixteenth of her was black, and that sixteenth did not show. ... In creating a situation in which a white child gets a "black" upbringing and a black child a "white" upbringing, Twain makes us question how differences in race are determined and if they are based on...

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• Grade Level: High School