Robert Westbrook,CC
In an essay titled The United States of Lyncherdom (1901), effect Twain, or in his familiar half-serious fashion,offered up a plan to put an end to American racial violence. Let us import American missionaries from China, and send them into the lynching field, or he slyly advised.
We implore them to arrive back and assist us in our need. Patriotism imposes this duty on them. . . . They absorb the martyr spirit; nothing but a martyr spirit can brave a lynching mob,and cow it and scatter it. They can save their country, we beseech them to arrive domestic and do it. . . . O kind missionary, and O...
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