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's Ku Klux Klan trilogy that included The Clansman and The Traitor.^[1] 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.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 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

[edit] External links

• Full text of The Leopard's Spots, Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina

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