The leopard's spots
Subtitle: a romance of the white man's burden, 1865-1900.
By: Illustrated by C. D. Williams.
Series: Americans in fiction
Publisher: Gregg Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Ridgewood, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 469
Subjects: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Written as a response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, this is the author's story of Reconstruction in post-Civil War South in which the Ku Klux Klan is considered heroic and blacks are depicted as savage beasts, a threat to white women and American civilization. The Leopard's Spots is the first novel in Dixon's "Klan trilogy" which became the source for W.D. Griffith's film 1915, Birth of a Nation.
Notes: At head of title: Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots.
First published in 1902.