ABSTRACT
Thomas Dixon was a lawyer, North Carolina state legislator, Baptist minister, lecturer, and novelist. This novel, an abridgement by Cary Wintz was originally published in 1905. It reflects turn-of-the-century attitudes most southerners had about Republican rule during Reconstruction.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |46 pages
The Assassination
chapter |10 pages
The Bruised Reed
chapter |7 pages
The Great Heart
chapter |3 pages
The Man of War
chapter |8 pages
A Clash of Giants
chapter |3 pages
The Battle of Love
chapter |8 pages
The Assassination
chapter |5 pages
The Frenzy of a Nation
part |52 pages
The Revolution
chapter |6 pages
The First Lady of the Land
chapter |5 pages
Sweethearts
chapter |2 pages
The Joy of Living
chapter |3 pages
Hidden Treasure
chapter |6 pages
Across the Chasm
chapter |3 pages
The Gauge of Battle
chapter |6 pages
A Woman Laughs
chapter |2 pages
A Dream
chapter |5 pages
The King Amuses Himself
chapter |2 pages
Tossed by the Storm
chapter |6 pages
The Supreme Test
chapter |4 pages
Triumph in Defeat
part |51 pages
The Reign of Terror
chapter |5 pages
A Fallen Slaveholder's Mansion
chapter |3 pages
The Eyes of the Jungle
chapter |4 pages
Augustus Caesar
chapter |7 pages
At The Point of the Bayonet
chapter |3 pages
Forty Acres and a Mule
chapter |4 pages
A Whisper in the Crowd
chapter |4 pages
By the Light of a Torch
chapter |5 pages
The Riot in the Master's Hall
chapter |3 pages
At Lover's Leap
chapter |5 pages
A Night Hawk
chapter |4 pages
The Beat of a Sparrow's Wing
chapter |2 pages
At the Dawn of Day
part |36 pages
The Ku Klux Klan