Special Section on Mark Twain

Prologue To Mark Twain’s “to The Person Sitting In Darkness.”

By Kurt Jacobsen
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Picture Huckleberry Finn, a bit older and flintier, in Army uniform remorselessly slaughtering Filipino insurgents, and their hapless families, at the inauspicious turn of the 20th century. What would nigger Jim think?[1] A tad earlier, these same villainous Filipinos had been hailed in the fickle US press as glorious freedom fighters for helping America to…

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To The Person Sitting In Darkness

By Mark Twain
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Extending the Blessings of Civilization to our Brother who Sits in Darkness has been a good trade and has paid well, on the whole; and there is money in it yet, if carefully worked but not enough, in my judgement, to make any considerable risk advisable. The People that Sit in Darkness are getting to be…

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