To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth
of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a negro.
She was a slave, and salable as such. Her child was thirty-one parts white,
and he, too, was a slave, and by a fiction of law and custom a negro.
- The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
The heir of two centuries of unatoned insult and outrage.
- The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
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Roxy
-- as drawn by two different artists.
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Louis Loeb from CENTURY MAGAZINE 1894 |
 Edward W. Kemble from 1899 edition of PUDD'NHEAD WILSON |
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