Charles Nilon's essay cited by Kevin Bochynski gives a stong account of the
relation between the Reconstruction and the ending of HF. Two articles by
Larry Berkove are also of interest:
"The 'Poor Players' of Huckleberry Finn." Papers of the Michigan
Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 53 (1968): 291-310.
"The Free Man of Color in The Grandissimes and Works by Harris and
Mark
Twain." Southern Quarterly 18.4 (Summer 1980): 60-73.
Jim Leonard
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