To The Person Sitting In Darkness

Download or read book To The Person Sitting In Darkness written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To the Person Sitting in Darkness" is an essay by American author Mark Twain published in the North American Review in February 1901. It is a satire exposing imperialism as revealed in the Boxer Uprising and its aftermath, the Boer War, and the Philippine-American War expressing his anti-Imperialist views. It mentions the historical figures Emilio Aguinaldo, William McKinley, Joseph Chamberlain, William Scott Ament and others, and fueled the Twain-Ament indemnities controversy.