However, the setting of the novel was in 1830, a period called "Ante Bellum-, which was the time before Civil War and the time of slavery. ... 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 biology or on th...

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