The Flaming Sword (novel)
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| Authors | Thomas Dixon, Jr. |
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| Illustrator | Edward Shenton |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Monarch Publishing |
Publication date | 1939 |
The Flaming Sword was a 1939 novel by Thomas Dixon, Jr. It was his twenty-eighth and last novel.[1] It has been described as "a racist jeremiad centered on the specter of black sexuality."[2]
The novel is the last installment of a trilogy which included The Clansman and The Birth of a Nation.[3] It is partly based on The Red Dawn, a play written by Dixon in 1919.[3]
Dixon worked sixteen hours a day on this novel.[4] The book came with thirty pages of illustrations done by Edward Shenton.[3] It was published by Monarch Publishing, owned by Edward Young Clarke, a Ku Klux Klan member.[3]
The title is taken from a quotation by African-American leader W.E.B. Du Bois: "Across this path stands the South with flaming sword."[2][4][5]