A young slave woman attempting to protect her son from the horrors of slavery, switches her light-skinned infant with the master's white son. This novel features a literary first — the use of fingerprinting to solve a crime.
Genres
- Passing (Identity)
- Race relations
- Trials (Murder)
- Impostors and imposture
- Open Library Staff Picks
- Slavery
- Fiction
- Infants switched at birth
- Twins
- Conjoined twins
- Large type books
- Missouri, fiction
- American fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Fiction, historical
- Fiction, legal
- Slaves, fiction
- Twins, fiction
- American literature
- Satire, american
- Fiction, historical, general
- Fiction, suspense
- African americans, fiction
- Lawyers
- Literature and fiction, historical fiction
- Enslaved persons, fiction
- Crime, fiction
- Fiction, general
- Classics
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