Reply #26: My work in history has taken me to many good places.

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You have missed the point of my post.

On Twain, from a frequently consulted teacher's guide in U.S. History and Literature:

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By the time he wrote Huckleberry Finn, Samuel Clemens had come to believe not only that slavery was a horrendous wrong, but that white Americans owed black Americans some form of "reparations" for it. One graphic way to demonstrate this fact to your students is to share with them the letter Twain wrote to the Dean of the Yale Law School in 1885, in which he explained why he wanted to pay the expenses of Warner McGuinn, one of the first black law students at Yale. "We have ground the manhood out of them," Twain wrote Dean Wayland on Christmas Eve, 1885, "and the shame is ours, not theirs, & we should pay for it."

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Twain did indeed sponsor the expenses for the education of Warner T. McGuinn.