After seeing a theatrical version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", "he became obsessed with writing a trilogy of novels about the Reconstruction period." The trilogy comprised "The Leopard's Spots. A Romance of the White Man's Burden—1865–1900" (1902), "" (1905), and "The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire" (1907). "Each of his trilogy novels had developed that black-and-white battle through rape/lynching scenarios that are always represented as prefiguring total racewar, should elite white men fail to resolve the nation's 'Negro Problem'." Dixon also wrote a novel about Abraham Lincoln: "The Southerner" (1913), "the story of what Davis called 'the real Lincoln'", another, "The Man in Grey" (1921), on Robert E. Lee, and one on Jefferson Davis, "The Victim" (1914).