The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden – 1865-1900
Oct 2001 · Pelican Publishing
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Set in post-Civil War North Carolina, The Leopard's Spots tells of the pain of surrender and the effort to rebuild and repair the war-torn and downtrodden South. It exposes the reality of social and race relations during Reconstruction.
Set in post-Civil War North Carolina, The Leopard's Spots tells of the pain of surrender and the effort to rebuild and repair the war-torn and downtrodden South. It exposes the reality of social and race relations during Reconstruction.
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Thomas Dixon Jr. was born on November 11, 1864, in rural North Carolina during the Civil War. Educated at Wake Forest and Johns Hopkins Universities, Mr. Dixon was, among other things, a novelist, preacher, lecturer, lawyer, and state legislator. During his lifetime, he published twenty-two novels and several essays, plays, and sermons. He has been named among both the most dated and most contemporary Southern writers. Mr. Dixon's Trilogy of Reconstruction, which included the novels The Clansman, The Traitor, and The Leopard's Spots, was made into D. W. Griffith's cinema masterpiece, Birth of a Nation . The movie was praised for its artistry and vilified for its subject matter even in its own day: romancing the activity of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction. In the preface to his book, The Clansman , Mr. Dixon claims to have sought to preserve . . . both the letter and spirit of this remarkable period when the young South, led by the reincarnated souls of the Clansmen of Old Scotland, went forth under this cover as an Invisible Empire into one of the most dramatic chapters in history. Famous as a lecturer in his time, Mr. Dixon was considered a creator of attitudes, an interpreter of Southern history, and a reflector of the biases of his age. His novels and the movie made from them influenced American thought and contributed to the development of the climate of race relations in the twentieth century.
Thomas Dixon Jr. was born on November 11, 1864, in rural North Carolina during the Civil War. Educated at Wake Forest and Johns Hopkins Universities, Mr. Dixon was, among other things, a novelist, preacher, lecturer, lawyer, and state legislator. During his lifetime, he published twenty-two novel...
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