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The American Anti-Imperialist League - Digital Archive - Nathan Spicer

A digital archive of essays from and other primary source material on The American Anti-Imperialist League. Primary resources gather and curated by Nathan Spicer in partial completion of the requirements of the HIST 1011 Field Experience.

Essay: To the Person Sitting in Darkness

Twain, Mark. "To the Person Sitting in Darkness." North American Review 172, no. 531 (February 1901): 161-176. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044079392452?urlappend=%3Bseq=171

"The purpose of this article is not to describe the terrible offences against humanity committed in the name of Politics in some of the most notorious East Side districts. They could not be described, even verbally. But it is the intention to let the great mass of more or less careless citizens of this beautiful metropolis of the New World get some conception of the havoc and ruin wrought to man, woman and child in the most densely populated and least known section of the city.”