The Leopard’s Spots
The Leopard’s Spots: A Romance of the White Man’s Burden is the 1902 first novel by Thomas Dixon Jr. (1864-1946), the opening book of his Reconstruction trilogy. Dixon, a former Baptist minister and lecturer, wrote the novel as an angry answer to a stage production of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and it presents Reconstruction-era North Carolina through a white-supremacist lens that made the book a national best-seller in the South and a scandal among Black writers and Northern critics. Sutton Griggs and other Black novelists wrote direct fictional rebuttals. The novel launched the literary career that led to The Clansman and The Birth of a Nation. It is read today as a primary source for the Lost Cause mythology and the racial politics of the Jim Crow era. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.
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The Leopard’s Spots (1903) is a public domain work.
| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Historical Note | 1:39 | |
| 2 | 1.1 - A Hero Returns | 30:18 | |
| 3 | 1.2 - A Light Shining In Darkness | 19:46 | |
| 4 | 1.3 - Deepening Shadows | 6:54 | |
| 5 | 1.4 - Mr. Lincoln's Dream | 6:01 | |
| 6 | 1.5 - The Old and the New Church | 10:02 | |
| 7 | 1.6 - The Preacher and the Woman of Boston | 14:21 | |
| 8 | 1.7 - The Heart of a Child | 9:12 | |
| 9 | 1.8 - An Experiment in Matrimony | 8:11 | |
| 10 | 1.9 - A Master of Men | 15:21 | |
| 11 | 1.10 - The Man or Brute in Embryo | 18:48 | |
| 12 | 1.11 - Simon Legree | 17:55 | |
| 13 | 1.12 - Red Snow Drops | 9:22 | |
| 14 | 1.13 - Dick | 3:07 | |
| 15 | 1.14 - The Negro Uprising | 7:08 | |
| 16 | 1.15 - The New Citizen King | 8:18 | |
| 17 | 1.16 - Legree Speaker of the House | 15:38 | |
| 18 | 1.17 - The Second Reign of Terror | 20:36 | |
| 19 | 1.18 - The Red Flag of the Auctioneer | 23:01 | |
| 20 | 1.19 - The Rally of the Clansmen | 18:22 | |
| 21 | 1.20 - How Civilization Was Saved | 15:43 | |
| 22 | 1.21 - The Old and the New Negro | 2:25 | |
| 23 | 1.22 - The Danger of Playing with Fire | 10:25 | |
| 24 | 1.23 - The Birth of a Scalawag | 7:47 | |
| 25 | 1.24 - A Modern Miracle | 14:50 | |
| 26 | 2.1 - Blue Eyes and Black Hair | 10:11 | |
| 27 | 2.2 - The Voice of the Tempter | 12:21 | |
| 28 | 2.3 - Flora | 9:24 | |
| 29 | 2.4 - The One Woman | 12:29 | |
| 30 | 2.5 - The Morning of Love | 13:53 | |
| 31 | 2.6 - Beside Beautiful Waters | 20:23 | |
| 32 | 2.7 - Dreams and Fears | 9:53 | |
| 33 | 2.8 - The Unsolved Riddle | 7:02 | |
| 34 | 2.9 - The Rhythm of the Dance | 20:02 | |
| 35 | 2.10 - The Heart of a Villain | 16:05 | |
| 36 | 2.11 - The Old, Old Story | 20:48 | |
| 37 | 2.12 - The Music of the Mills | 8:30 | |
| 38 | 2.13 - The First Kiss | 5:54 | |
| 39 | 2.14 - A Mysterious Letter | 6:23 | |
| 40 | 2.15 - A Blow in the Dark | 17:44 | |
| 41 | 2.16 - The Mystery of Pain | 8:43 | |
| 42 | 2.17 - Is God Omnipotent? | 6:46 | |
| 43 | 2.18 - The Ways of Boston | 11:12 | |
| 44 | 2.19 - The Shadow of a Doubt | 5:32 | |
| 45 | 2.20 - A New Lesson in Love | 13:54 | |
| 46 | 2.21 - Why the Preacher Threw His Life Away | 16:01 | |
| 47 | 2.22 - The Flesh and the Spirit | 17:24 | |
| 48 | 3.1 - A Growl Beneath the Earth | 3:22 | |
| 49 | 3.2 - Face to Face with Fate | 17:11 | |
| 50 | 3.3 - A White Lie | 4:49 | |
| 51 | 3.4 - The Unspoken Terror | 13:06 | |
| 52 | 3.5 - A Thousand-Legged Beast | 16:34 | |
| 53 | 3.6 - The Black Peril | 5:54 | |
| 54 | 3.7 - Equality With a Reservation | 18:15 | |
| 55 | 3.8 - The New Simon Legree | 16:55 | |
| 56 | 3.9 - The New America | 7:51 | |
| 57 | 3.10 - Another Declaration of Independence | 13:15 | |
| 58 | 3.11 - The Heart of a Woman | 10:28 | |
| 59 | 3.12 - The Splendour of Shameless Love | 14:10 | |
| 60 | 3.13 - A Speech That Made History | 26:58 | |
| 61 | 3.14 - The Red Shirts | 3:21 | |
| 62 | 3.15 - The Higher Law | 15:26 | |
| 63 | 3.16 - The End of a Modern Villain | 2:21 | |
| 64 | 3.17 - Wedding Bells in the Governor's Mansion | 14:53 |
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