labels, labels, and more labels

it seems to me that alot of people chose to focus on the issue of nature vs. nurture in class today, but i took a different approach to the reading. i saw the problems as one of labels being placed on people. i thought that it was interesting how the two babies, one a slave, and one a master were so similar, yet they were treated completely different based on the labels of "slave" and "master". i think that Twain was showing how labels can have a tremendous effect on how people perceive you. this is evidenced by the fact that when the slave, Roxy switches the names aka labels of the children, no one catches on to this, which shows that there wasnt any distinguishable difference in the two. also this is noted in Puddnhead wilson's character, who is quite intelligent, yet no one in the town notices his intellect because they have stuck this label on him as an idiot, and thus they are blind to his real character due to the fact that labels carry these stereotypes which seem to be perpetuated by the people who do the labeling. it was also interesting how, slaves were supposed to be low class, and unintelligent, yet the only one that recognizes wilson's intelligence is Roxy, whom one would assume to be dumb.