*“I'LL KILL THE FIRST NIGGER THAT CROSSES THAT LINE

"I HAVE RESIGNED MY CHURCH-TO KILL YOU

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LEADING CHARACTERS OF THE STORY

Scene: The Foothills of North Carolina-Boston-New York Time: From 1865 to 1900

........

Who dreams of a Governor's Mansion

CHARLES GASTON..
SALLIE WORTH. ......A daughter of the old fashioned South
GEN. DANIEL WORTH..

MRS. WORTH...

.Her father Sallie's mother

THE REV. JOHN DURHAM....A preacher who threw his life away
MRS. DURHAM.... Of the Southern Army that never surrendered
ТОМ САМР.
A one-legged Confederate soldier
FLORA..
.....Tom's little daughter

SIMON LEGREE. ....... Ex-slave driver and Reconstruction leader

ALLAN MCLEOD.

HON. EVERETT LOWELL..
HELEN LOWELL.....
MISS SUSAN WALKER.

MAJOR STUART Dameron.

HOSE NORMAN,

NELSE....

AUNT EVE.....

HON. TIM SHELBY....

....A Scalawag

. Member of Congress from Boston

His daughter

.A maiden of Boston

..Chief of the Ku Klux Klan ..A dare-devil poor white man .A black hero of the old régime .His wife-" a respectable woman."

..Political boss of the new era

HON. PETE SAWYER. ........Sold seven times, got the money once

GEORGE HARRIS, JR..

An Educated Negro, son of Eliza

DICK..

.An unsolved riddle

V. THE OLD and the NEW CHURCH

VI. THE PREACHER AND THE Woman of BOSTON

VII. THE HEART OF A CHILD .

VIII. AN EXPERIMENT IN MATRIMONY

IX. A MASTER OF MEN

X. THE MAN OR BRUTE IN EMBRYO

XI. SIMON LEGREE

XIV. THE NEGRO UPRISING

XV. THE NEW CITIZEN KING

XVI. LEGREE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE

XVII. THE SECOND REIGN OF TERROR

XVIII. THE RED FLAG OF THE AUCTIONEER

XIX. THE RALLY OF THE CLANSMEN

XX. HOW CIVILIZATION WAS SAVED

XXI. THE Old and the NEW NEGRO.

XXII. THE DANGER OF PLAYING WITH FIRE.

XXIII. THE BIRTH OF A SCALAWAG

XXIV. A MODERN MIRACLE .