![]() ![]() Rather than submit to the rape that he surely intends, she edges onto a mountainous ridge and leaps to her death. Flora recoils in horror and scrambles into the woods with Gus in pursuit. The “black brute,” with “his yellow teeth grinning through his thick lips,” as Dixon describes him, proposes marriage. Gus, one of the liberated enslaved, in the uniform of the Union Army, loiters outside the house of the virginal southern belle Flora and follows her to the woods. With the defeat of the Confederacy, the southern white population is now kept in subjugation by white northern “carpetbaggers” in league with newly appointed black legislators.Įarly on in the film (based on Thomas Dixon’s novel The Clansman), a black face appears on the screen. Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation, the American Civil War ends.
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