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 The Citadel