The Leopard's Spots

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The Leopard's Spots is a 1902 white supremacist novel by Thomas Dixon Jr. that helped inspire D.W. Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation.

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The Leopard’s Spots 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
white supremacist literature
author Thomas Dixon Jr.
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticizedFor anti-Black racism
glorification of Ku Klux Klan
historical distortion of Reconstruction
depicts African Americans in racist stereotypes
followedBy The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
surface form: The Clansman
genre historical novel
political novel
racist fiction
hasAuthorNationality American
hasCharacterType Black freedmen
white Southern politicians
hasForm prose
serialized fiction (early publication in periodicals)
hasReception controversial for racist content
hasSubject post–Civil War South
race relations in the United States
ideology Lost Cause of the Confederacy
white nationalism
influenced American racist propaganda
D. W. Griffith
inspiredWork The Birth of a Nation
language English
mainTheme Lost Cause ideology
Reconstruction politics
racial segregation
white supremacy
mediaType print
narrativePerspective pro-Confederate
partOfSeries Reconstruction trilogy (The Leopard's Spots, The Clansman, The Traitor)
surface form: Reconstruction Trilogy
portraysGroup Ku Klux Klan
promotes white racial dominance
publicationCentury 20th century
publicationDate 1902
publisher Doubleday
surface form: Doubleday, Page & Company
relatedWork The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
surface form: The Clansman

The Traitor
setInCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
setInPeriod Reconstruction era
setInRegion Southern United States
surface form: American South

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The Birth of a Nation basedOn The Leopard's Spots
The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan precededBy The Leopard's Spots
this entity surface form: The Leopard’s Spots
Thomas Dixon Jr. notableWork The Leopard's Spots