The clansman
Subtitle: an historical romance of the Ku Klux klan
By: by Thomas Dixon, jr.  Illustrated with scenes from the photo-play, The birth of a nation.
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Published: 1915
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Ku-Klux Klan (1866-1869) -- Fiction.; White supremacy movements -- Fiction.; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Fiction.; Racism -- Fiction.; South Carolina -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "In The Clansman, Reconstruction was an attempt by Augustus Stoneman, a thinly veiled reference to Thaddeus Stevens, to ensure that the Republican Party would stay in power by securing the southern black vote. His hatred for President Johnson stems from Johnson's refusal to disenfranchise whites. Stoneman's anger towards former slave holders is intensified after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, where he vows revenge on the South. His programs strip away the property owned by whites, in turn giving them to former slaves. Men claiming to represent the government confiscate the material wealth of the South, destroying plantation owning families. Finally, the former slaves are taught that they are superior to their former owners and should rise up against them. These injustices are the impetuses for the creation of the Klan."--Wikipedia.
Notes: "The clansman" is the second book of a series of historical novels planned on the race conflict.