The Sins of the Father
- Reading level
- Easy
- Price
- Free
About the book
"The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South" by Thomas Dixon Jr. is a novel published in 1912. Dan Norton, a Confederate veteran and Ku Klux Klan leader, begins a forbidden relationship with Cleo, a quadroon woman hired as his family's caretaker. Their secret affair produces devastating consequences that spiral through the next generation. Dixon explores themes of miscegenation and racial separation against the backdrop of the post-Civil War South, culminating in a tragic ending that destroys Norton's entire family.
- Political fiction
- Newspaper editors
- North Carolina
- Ku Klux Klan (19th century)
- White supremacy movements
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #36666. The Sins of the Father on Wikipedia.
