The Leopard's Spots

The Leopard's Spots

Infobox Book
name = The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden - 1865-1900
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author = Thomas Dixon
illustrator = C. D. Williams
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Doubleday, Page & Co.
release_date = 1902
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media_type = Print
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isbn = NA
oclc = 12852953
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"The Leopard's Spots" is the first novel of Thomas Dixon's Ku Klux Klan trilogy that included "The Clansman" and "The Traitor". [ [http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/dixon_intro.html Andrew Leitner, "Thomas Dixon, Jr.: Conflicts in History and Literature", "Documenting the American South"] , University of North Carolina, accessed 12 Jun 2008] In the novel Dixon offers an account of Reconstruction in which he portrays the villains as a former slave driver, Northern carpetbaggers and emancipated slaves; and heroes as members of the Ku Klux Klan.Fact|date=March 2008

Characters

Charles Gaston - A man who dreams of making it to the Governor's Mansion
Sallie Worth - A daughter of the old-fashioned South
Gen. Daniel Worth - Sallie Worth's father
Mrs. Worth - Sallie's mother
The Rev. John Durham - A preacher who threw his life away
Tom Camp - A Confederate soldier
Flora - Tom's daughter
Simon Legree - Ex-slave driver and Reconstruction leader
Allan Mcleod - A scalawag (Union sympathizer)
Everett Lowell - Member of Congress from Boston
Helen Lowell - Everett's daughter
Major Stuart Dameron - Head of the Ku Klux Klan
Hose Norman - poor white man
Hon. Tim Shelby - Political Boss
George Harris, Jr - An educated Negro

References

External links

* [http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/dixonleopard/ Full text of "The Leopard's Spots"] , "Documenting the American South", University of North Carolina


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