The Leopard's Spots: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Leopard's Spots, credited to Thomas Dixon, Jr., is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Leopard's Spots by Thomas Dixon, Jr.. Read in English by Michele Fry The first in a trilogy of the Reconstruction era - The Leopard's Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and The Traitor (1907), parts of this novel were incorporated in the 1915 silent movie classic, "The Birth Of A Nation". Set in North Carolina, the book explores the extreme social and racial tensions of the period as Confederates attempt to fight off "reconstructionist" policy, rebuild the war-torn South's economy, and grapple with the rampant "race question" of the day, whether the black and white races can ever live side by side as equals, i.e., whether a leopard can change its spots? Characters include the villainous Reconstruction leader, Simon Legree (the same vile slave holder from Harriett Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, only many years later); Charles Gaston, a young southern gentleman who dreams of true love and the governor's mansion; Sallie Worth, sweet obedient daughter of southern aristocracy. A colorful assortment of preachers, carpetbaggers, scallywags, farmers, Ku Klux Klan members, and newly emancipated negroes help round out the cast. (Summary by Michele T. Fry)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Leopard's Spots
• Author credits: Thomas Dixon, Jr.
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 64
• Listed recording duration: 13:10:33

Catalogue topics

• slavery
• civil war
• Abraham Lincoln
• racism
• segregation
• reconstruction
• ku klux klan
• universal suffrage

Opening tracks: first 24 of 64

1. 00 - Historical Note — 1:39
2. 01 - 1.1 - A Hero Returns — 30:18
3. 02 - 1.2 - A Light Shining In Darkness — 19:46
4. 03 - 1.3 - Deepening Shadows — 6:54
5. 04 - 1.4 - Mr. Lincoln's Dream — 6:01
6. 05 - 1.5 - The Old and the New Church — 10:02
7. 06 - 1.6 - The Preacher and the Woman of Boston — 14:21
8. 07 - 1.7 - The Heart of a Child — 9:12
9. 08 - 1.8 - An Experiment in Matrimony — 8:11
10. 09 - 1.9 - A Master of Men — 15:21
11. 10 - 1.10 - The Man or Brute in Embryo — 18:48
12. 11 - 1.11 - Simon Legree — 17:55
13. 12 - 1.12 - Red Snow Drops — 9:22
14. 13 - 1.13 - Dick — 3:07
15. 14 - 1.14 - The Negro Uprising — 7:08
16. 15 - 1.15 - The New Citizen King — 8:18
17. 16 - 1.16 - Legree Speaker of the House — 15:38
18. 17 - 1.17 - The Second Reign of Terror — 20:36
19. 18 - 1.18 - The Red Flag of the Auctioneer — 23:01
20. 19 - 1.19 - The Rally of the Clansmen — 18:22
21. 20 - 1.20 - How Civilization Was Saved — 15:43
22. 21 - 1.21 - The Old and the New Negro — 2:25
23. 22 - 1.22 - The Danger of Playing with Fire — 10:25
24. 23 - 1.23 - The Birth of a Scalawag — 7:47

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