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One of the Meanest Books: Thomas Dixon, Jr. and The Leopard's Spots

Record #:
21117
Abstract:
Thomas Dixon Jr.'s first fictional work, The Leopard's Spots, spins the tale of white manhood lost and regained in post-Civil War North Carolina. While portrayed as a truthful account of Reconstruction with Dixon as the ideal Southern gentleman, The Leopard's Spots more often than not twists the reality southern life to create villains out of African-Americans and noble heroes out of white Southerners.
Source:
North Carolina Literary Review (NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, 1994, p87-101, il, por