After she makes "Tom" a master by switching him out of his slave's cradle, Roxy "sink[s] from the sublime heights of motherhood to the somber depths of unmodified slavery." In the corner of this illustration we see "Tom" teaching "Roxy 'her place'" as his slave. We're told by the text that "sometimes" Roxy, despite being "worn out with fatigue," can't sleep, "because her rage boiled so high" over the abuses she suffers from him; the specific moment illustrated here Roxy describes as "He struck me . . . in de face, right before folks." Complicating the idea of "slavery" here, however, is that the "folks" include the illustrator's close-up of three faces that (like several dozen images in this edition) are derived from minstrel-show caricatures. And of course there is the inescapable irony: all the people in this illustration are, legally and socially, "black," and the person striking Roxy is her own son. Chapter 4, Pudd'nhead Wilson The Barrett Collection, UVA PS 1317 .A1 1894