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.

Originally published in 1905, and made into the classic film The Birth of a Nation in 1915, this melodramatic novel reflects turn-of-the-century attitudes most white southerners -- and northerners as well -- still had about Republican rule during Reconstruction.