Letters to Our Little Brown Brothers

Overview

After the genocides perpetrated by American expansionists during the Filipino-American War, the slogan of "Benevolent Assimilation" was more carefully set into motion by American civilian rule. Told in the epistolary form, excerpts of letters by William Howard Taft, appointed by American President McKinley to bring about further pacification of the new colony, formulates how to win the hearts and minds of the Filipinos.