Description: VINTAGE The Leopard's Spots by Thomas Dixon Jr [HC,1902] ------ CONDITION ----- book is in ACCEPTABLE condition. The spine cover of the book is worn. There is discoloration and wear on the front and back cover. There are names written in the front cover. Binding is not great, but there are no loose pages. IMPERFECTIONS ARE PICTURED. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me, OR MAKE AN OFFER! The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden—1865–1900 is the first novel of Thomas Dixon's Reconstruction trilogy, and was followed by The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (1905), and The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire (1907).[1] In the novel, published in 1902, Dixon offers an account of Reconstruction in which he portrays a Reconstruction leader (and former slave driver), Northern carpetbaggers, and emancipated slaves as the villains; Ku Klux Klan members are anti-heroes. While the playbills and program for The Birth of a Nation claimed The Leopard's Spots as a source in addition to The Clansman, recent scholars do not accept this.[2][3]The first half of a passage from the Book of Jeremiah (13:23) is included on the title page: "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?" While the full passage is about evildoers refusing to turn away from evil to good,[4][5] the title conveys the idea that, as leopards could not change their spots, people of African origin could not change what Dixon, as a racist and white supremacist,[1] viewed as inherently negative character traits.
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Vintage
Author: Thomas Dixon, Jr.
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co.
Topic: Sociology
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Americana
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1902
