In D.W. Griffith's controversial Civil War epic, the Stonemans, Northern abolitionists, and the Camerons, Southern planters, are intertwined. Elsie Stoneman pleads for the pardon of Confederate colonel Ben Cameron after he is captured during combat. In South Carolina during Reconstruction, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, pitting himself against Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé Silas Lynch.
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In D.W. Griffith's controversial Civil War epic, the Stonemans, Northern abolitionists, and the Camerons, Southern planters, are intertwined. Elsie Stoneman pleads for the pardon of Confederate colonel Ben Cameron after he is captured during combat. In South Carolina during Reconstruction, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, pitting himself against Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé Silas Lynch.
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