Question

Select the phrase from Mark Twain's essay, "The Person Sitting in Darkness," published in February of 1901, that best identifies Twain as an anti-imperialist.

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There is something curious about this-curious and unaccountable. There must be two Americas: one that sets the captive free, and one that takes a once-captive's new freedom away from him, and pick a quarrel with him with nothing to found it on; then kills him to get his land.

Answer 1

The phrase that best identifies Twain as an anti-imperialist is: "one that sets the captive free, and one that takes a once-captive's new freedom away from him." This highlights his criticism of the contradiction in American imperialism, where freedom is claimed for some while being denied to others.