ABSTRACT
When Mark Twain began Adventures of Huckleberry Finn he thought he was writing another boys’ book, a simple sequel to Tom Sawyer; but his story was soon hijacked by a black slave and a white boy on a quest for freedom. When Twain began the book that would end up as Pudd’nhead Wilson he thought he was writing a book about Angelo and Luigi, Italian Siamese twins with two heads, four arms and one torso; but that story was soon hijacked by a man who was one-thirty-second part black and a slave who had hoped to set him free. Two of the most powerful and most powerfully flawed books in American literary history were the result.
