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"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's a girl" (Shirley Chisholm). The quote before pertains to one of Mark Twain's characters named Roxana, or Roxy for short. Born into slavery, Roxy, however could pass as a white person if it were not for her speech. In the beginning Roxy gives birth to a boy he same day her Master's wife delivers their child, also a boy. The new addition to her Master's family, Percy Driscoll, is Thomas a Beckett Driscoll. Roxy names her child Valet de Chambers. In Pudd'nhead Wilson, by Mark Twain, Roxy is portrayed as motherly, tough, and resourceful.
Roxy like any other mother shows a maternal side. Being a slave there is always the threat of worse places to be. In Roxy's case the worst place to be enslaved is down the river. When her master Percy Driscoll finds money missing form his safe, he uses that threat to find the guilty. This makes Roxy scared not only for her life, but her child's......

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