The Leopard's Spots

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Illustration from The Leopard's Spots. The caption reads "I'll kill the first nigger that crosses that line."

The Leopard's Spots is the first novel of Thomas Dixon The Reconstruction Trilogy. In the novel Dixon offers a very unreconstructed account of Reconstruction, in which the villains are Simon Legree, Northern liberals and emancipated slaves and hero is the Ku Klux Klan.

[edit] Characters

CHARLES GASTON - Who dreams of a 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
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

[edit] External link

• Full text of The Leopard's Spots

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