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The Leopard's Spots
Thomas Dixon
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“Hear dat now, niggers!” cried old Reuben.
“The man who tells you that you are going to be given the ballot indiscriminately with which you can ru. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
The best way to get an understanding of how the American public remembered Reconstruction is not by reading Dunning School histories, but rather by reading novels such as this one--a popular best-seller when published in 1902.
Unfortunately, I was surprised to find it a slog to get through. The stock
Currently reading, but the drooling idiot dialect attributed to Nelse is so obnoxious I could puke. A lot of people say things like, "Well, it's just a product of its time." or " But the poor southerners had justification for feeling this way." Bullshit. My grandmother was born in 1902, the year thi
"Here in this pretty world gallantry took it's last bow..
Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair,
Of Master and of Slave...
Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered.
A Civilization gone with the wind."
This is one such book.
The first in a trilogy about Reconstruction. Carpetbaggers took a lot out of the south mostly economic items (cash) but brought into the south much hatred and tyranny. I had known about the cash theft but not about the hatred and tyranny. It would have been better if Lincoln survived I am sure.
"The Leopard's Spots" is the first in a trilogy by Thomas Dixon, with the second being "The Clansman" and the final book being "The Traitor." It was the second book, with a few portions from this, that became the basis for D.W. Griffith's 1915 movie "The Birth Of A Nation" - as well as an earlier pl
Very racist but very well-written.
This book, written by a man who lived in the South through the Civil War and Reconstruction, is an amazing glimpse into the mind of a man of his period and place. He delivers a broad spectrum of insights into many types of people who lived in his time and how they thought. Extremely melodramatic and
It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.