In response to Camy's question: In his AROUND THE WORLD WITH MARK TWAIN, Robert Cooper reports (pp. 226-227) that on February 7, 1896, Twain arrived in Calcutta and, despite having a cold and despite suffering from carbuncles, he received two reporters. After discussing racial matters in England & the colonies, as well as comparing Canadian & American treatment of "Red men," Cooper says Twain talked about Negroes, comparing them to Indians, asserting that American Negroes, "are merely freed slaves, and you can't get rid of the effects of slavery in one or even two generations. But things will right themselves. We have given the negro the vote, and he must keep it." Then Cooper says of Twain: "There was not, he said in response to a question, the slightest likelihood of intermarriage. 'The white and the black populations, however, will in time learn to tolerate each other and work harmoniously for the common good. They will co-exist very much as the different races in India have done for centuries.'" There's more on Twain and race on Cooper's pages 226-227, but the paragraph above comes as closely to addressing Camy's question as anything I've found. Cheers, Cal