TO THE PERSON SITTING IN DARKNESS

by Mark Twain, pseud. of Samuel L. Clemens

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New York: Anti-Imperialist League, 1901. First Separate Edition. First separate edition of Twain's essay, reprinted from the February, 1901 issue of the North American Review. Twain became the vice present of the Anti-Imperialist League of New York in 1901, an organization opposed to America's seizure of Spain's empire during the Spanish-American War. His essay was an acid indictment of the brutalities the British, French,

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