{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "TIL that The Clansman, the book Birth of a Nation was adapted from, was the middle volume of a trilogy that began AS A GRITTY...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/167075806598/", "html": "<p><a href=\"https://oligopsoneia.tumblr.com/post/167075726210/kontextmaschine-til-that-the-clansman-the-book\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">oligopsoneia</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"/post/158794569693/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p><blockquote><p>TIL that <u>The Clansman</u>, the book <em>Birth of a Nation</em> was adapted from, was the middle volume of a trilogy that began <a href=\"http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/dixonleopard/summary.html\" target=\"_blank\">AS A GRITTY REBOOT OF UNCLE TOM\u2019S CABIN</a></p></blockquote>\n<p>N.B. this was <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Tom_literature\" target=\"_blank\">an entire genre</a>.</p></blockquote>"}