In this gallery of interracial representations I want to include two illustrations from the next novel MT wrote about the slave-owning society he grew up in: Pudd'nhead Wilson. Among the hundreds of "Marginal Illustrations" in that book are many that depict slaves kneeling. This one, by F. M. Senior, depicts the gratitude of three of Percy Driscoll's slaves after he decides not to sell them down the river for stealing. You can tell which one is Driscoll. The three kneeling are not named, simply enumerated as "a man, a woman, and a boy twelve years old." The woman standing behind the scene is Roxy, one of the novel's central characters. Despite her "white" appearance, she too is a slave. She does not kneel because she didn't take Driscoll's missing two dollars. It's interesting to speculate about how readers would have reacted to this familiar scene if among the abjectly kneeling figures had been a "white" woman.
The Barrett Collection, UVA PS 1317 .A1 1894