‘On the Moro Massacre’ (1906) by Mark Twain from Autobiography, Vol. 2. edited by Arthur Bigelow Paine. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1924.

‘On the Moro Massacre’ (1906) by Mark Twain from Autobiography, Vol. 2. edited by Arthur Bigelow Paine. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1924.

A classic anti-imperialist indictment from Mark Twain. The contempt, sarcasm, and ‘anti-Americansim’ of this inflamed commentary on reports of the 1906 massacres of Moros in the Philippines by U.S. occupation forces was deemed too incendiary to publish in his lifetime, not seeing print until a decade after his death. If these same words were written […]