Dixon wrote The Clansman as a message to Northerners to maintain racial segregation, as the work claimed that blacks when free would turn savage and violent, committing crimes such as murder, rape and robbery far out of proportion to their percentage of the population.
Hmmm...
Well hey, we really needed another thread around here devoted to the failings of the American Black community, thanks
But... on the topic, I'm trying to recall the name of a book I picked up years ago at the bookstore at the Chickamauga Battlefield Park, the book originally being one of those WPA-funded endeavors of the '30's, where people went around and interviewed folks born into slavery to get their testimonies while they were still alive. More than a few of these elderly people interviewed referenced the crime problems in their communities subsequent to emancipation.
Some even stated that the young male miscreants in their communities would have been better controlled under slavery.
Birdwatcher
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
