1885 HUCK FINN ILLUSTRATION


When Jim tells Huck about "specalat'n" in various investments, he mentions "dat one-laigged nigger dat b'longs to ole Misto Bradish." We never learn his name, and this illustration is the only appearance he makes in the text. Both the sound of Jim and Huck's dialogue and the look of Kemble's drawing are indebted to the representational conventions of blackface minstrelsy.
Chapter 8, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
The Barrett Collection, UVA   PS1305 .A1 1885b