Pudd'nhead Wilson: Slavery One would expect a novel written with a setting in ante-bellum south to discuss issues dealing with slavery. This is exactly what Mark Twain did in his novel Pudd'nhead Wilson. The following discusses the topic of slavery and how it was used in Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. Pudd'nhead Wilson is the story of two boys, one a black slave and the other a white man, switched at birth. Tom, the slave who is living "white" with his foster father, his uncle, goes unnoticed in this condition for all of his life. However, Tom has several bad habits, mostly gambling, that eventually cost him his freedom. He racks up large gambling debts, and in an effort to pay them off sells his own mother back into slavery. His mother escapes, though, and demands to have her freedom bought back or else she would tell Tom's unc....

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