Assignment for Wednesday, September 18

OK, the linked document contains several selections.  There are some small ones that are records of speeches Twain gave.  Then there's a longer, and horrifying one, about lynching in America.  For Monday, read everything up to the lynching essay, and stop at the beginning of that.  (We'll get to that later.)  I may ask you to do some in class writing, so make sure you read these things carefully.

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