"THE UNITED STATES OF LYNCHERDOM" by Mark Twain

This is the Mark Twain now publicly derided as "touched" or "off the mark" by the mavens of American literature. Back in his early, "nigger" days of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, they adored him. But, in his later "Negro" days, they scandalize his honorable name. Of course, typically, most who criticize have read only bits and pieces, if that much, of this mighty man's literary corpus. I love him, all of him, from his beginnings, as an infant among story-telling Missouri slaves, like "Uncle Daniel," whose voice he mimics, to later acclaim.

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