The Scalawags

Author : James Alex Baggett
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807130141

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In The Scalawags, James Alex Baggett ambitiously uncovers the genesis of scalawag leaders throughout the former Confederacy. Using a collective biography approach, Baggett profiles 742 white southerners who supported Congressional Reconstruction and the Republican Party. He then compares and contrasts the scalawags with 666 redeemer-Democrats who opposed and eventually replaced them. Significantly, he analyzes this rich data by region -- the Upper South, the Southeast, and the Southwest -- as well as for the South as a whole. Baggett follows the life of each scalawag before, during, and after the war, revealing real personalities and not mere statistics. Examining such features as birthplace, vocation, estate, slaveholding status, education, political antecedents and experience, stand on secession, war record, and postwar political activities, he finds striking uniformity among scalawags. This is the first Southwide study of the scalawags, its scope and astounding wealth in quantity and quality of sources make it the definitive work on the subject.

Author : Frank J. Wetta
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807147481

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The Louisiana Scalawags by Frank J. Wetta Pdf

During the Civil War and Reconstruction, the pejorative term "scalawag" referred to white southerners loyal to the Republican Party. With the onset of the federal occupation of New Orleans in 1862, scalawags challenged the restoration of the antebellum political and social orders. Derided as opportunists, uneducated "poor white trash," Union sympathizers, and race traitors, scalawags remain largely misunderstood even today. In The Louisiana Scalawags, Frank J. Wetta offers the first in-depth analysis of these men and their struggle over the future of Louisiana. A significant assessment of the interplay of politics, race, and terrorism during Reconstruction, this study answers an array of questions about the origin and demise of the scalawags, and debunks much of the negative mythology surrounding them. Contrary to popular thought, the southern white Republicans counted among their ranks men of genuine accomplishment and talent. They worked in fields as varied as law, business, medicine, journalism, and planting, and many held government positions as city officials, judges, parish officeholders, and state legislators in the antebellum years. Wetta demonstrates that a strong sense of nationalism often motivated the men, no matter their origins. Louisiana's scalawags grew most active and influential during the early stages of Reconstruction, when they led in founding the state's Republican Party. The vast majority of white Louisianans, however, rejected the scalawags' appeal to form an alliance with the freedmen in a biracial political party. Eventually, the influence of the scalawags succumbed to persistent terrorism, corruption, and competition from the white carpetbaggers and their black Republican allies. By then, the state's Republican Party consisted of white political leaders without any significant white constituency. According to Wetta, these weaknesses, as well as ineffective federal intervention in response to a Democratic Party insurgency, caused the Republican Party to collapse and Reconstruction to fail in Louisiana.

Author : Baby Professor
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541963733

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New Voters from the South : The Scalawags and Carpetbaggers | Reconstruction 1865-1877 Grade 5 | Children's American History by Baby Professor Pdf

At the end of this book, you should be able to define the terms “scalawags” and “carpetbaggers”. Understand where the terms came from and why they were labeled as such. What reasons did the scalawags and carpetbaggers have for moving to different regions during the period of Reconstruction? Which of these two groups supported the African Americans? Find the answers in this book.

Author : Hyman Rubin III
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643362502

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South Carolina Scalawags by Hyman Rubin III Pdf

The first history of the efforts and fates of white Republicans during Reconstruction South Carolina Scalawags tells the familiar story of Reconstruction from a mostly unfamiliar vantage point, that of white southerners who broke ranks and supported the newly recognized rights and freedoms of their black neighbors. The end of the Civil War turned South Carolina's political hierarchy upside down by calling into existence what had not existed before, a South Carolina Republican Party, and putting its members at the helm of state government from 1868 to 1876. Composed primarily of former slaves, the burgeoning party also attracted the membership of newly arrived northern "carpetbaggers" and of white South Carolinians who had lived in the state prior to secession. Known as "scalawags," these South Carolinians numbered as many as ten thousand—fifteen percent of the state's white population—but have remained a maligned and largely misunderstood component of post-Civil War politics. In this first book-length exploration of their egalitarian objectives and short-lived ambitions, Hyman Rubin III resurrects the lives and careers of these individuals who took a leading role during Reconstruction. South Carolina Scalawags delves into the lives of representative white Republicans, exploring their backgrounds, political attitudes and actions, and post-Reconstruction fates. The Republicans succeeded in creating a much more representative and responsive government than the state had seen before or would see for generations. During its heyday the party began to attract wealthier white citizens, many of whom were moderates favoring cooperation between open-minded Democrats and responsible Republicans. In assessing the eventual Republican collapse, Rubin does not gloss over disturbing trends toward factionalism and corruption that increasingly characterized the party's governance. Rather he points to these failings in explaining the federal government's abandonment of the party in 1876 and the Democrats' reassertion of white supremacy.

Author : Carol Ferring Shepley
Publisher : Missouri History Museum
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781883982652

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Movers and Shakers, Scalawags and Suffragettes by Carol Ferring Shepley Pdf

"The history of Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis is told through the stories of those who are buried there. Cemetery records and interviews with insiders inform the research"--Provided by publisher.

Author : JoAnn Semones
Publisher : Glencannon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Pigeon Point (San Mateo County, Calif.)
ISBN : 1889901423

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Shipwrecks, Scalawags, and Scavengers by JoAnn Semones Pdf

Author : James Ball Naylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UVA:X004249340

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The Scalawags by James Ball Naylor Pdf

Author : Richard L. Hume,Jerry B. Gough
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 947 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807148334

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Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags by Richard L. Hume,Jerry B. Gough Pdf

After the Civil War, Congress required ten former Confederate states to rewrite their constitutions before they could be readmitted to the Union. An electorate composed of newly enfranchised former slaves, native southern whites (minus significant numbers of disenfranchised former Confederate officials), and a small contingent of "carpetbaggers," or outside whites, sent delegates to ten constitutional conventions. Derogatorily labeled "black and tan" by their detractors, these assemblies wrote constitutions and submitted them to Congress and to the voters in their respective states for approval. Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags offers a quantitative study of these decisive but little-understood assemblies -- the first elected bodies in the United States to include a significant number of blacks. Richard L. Hume and Jerry B. Gough scoured manuscript census returns to determine the age, occupation, property holdings, literacy, and slaveholdings of 839 of the conventions' 1,018 delegates. Carefully analyzing convention voting records on certain issues -- including race, suffrage, and government structure -- they correlate delegates' voting patterns with their racial and socioeconomic status. The authors then assign a "Republican support score" to each delegate who voted often enough to count, establishing the degree to which each delegate adhered to the Republican leaders' program at his convention. Using these scores, they divide the delegates into three groups -- radicals, swing voters, and conservatives -- and incorporate their quantitative findings into the narrative histories of each convention, providing, for the first time, a detailed analysis of these long-overlooked assemblies. Hume and Gough's comprehensive study offers an objective look at the accomplishments and shortcomings of the conventions and humanizes the delegates who have until now been understood largely as stereotypes. Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags provides an essential reference guide for anyone seeking a better understanding of the Reconstruction era.

Author : Stuart B. McIver
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1561641553

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Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags by Stuart B. McIver Pdf

Florida has been the home of many unusual characters throughout the years. Meet Ned Buntline, Laura Riding, Wilson Mizner, Sam Jones, and many others. Storytellers, lawbreakers, movers and shakers, sportsmen, moviemakers, visionaries, and mobsters all left their mark on Florida. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

Author : Richard Bailey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032748165

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Neither Carpetbaggers Nor Scalawags by Richard Bailey Pdf

Recounts the rise & fall of African Americans in Alabama politics. Delves into the efforts to establish banks, labor unions, newspapers, churches, schools, & the Republican party. Also distills the role of the Freedmen's Bureau, Union League, & American Missionary Association in their rise to political power. Outlined are their prewar activities, especially their occupations, manumissions, quest for an education, & service to the Union or the Confederacy. Shows that blacks were loyal members of the party & were especially crippled when intraparty factionism & Federal programs failed to move them beyond emancipation. Emphasized are the reasons for the decline of black officeholding. Includes two maps, eight tables, & 57 photographs, many of them rare. Among the 14 appendices are some correspondence of these lawmakers, data on Alabama's black schools, names & hometowns of AMA teachers, a list of black property owners, identification of black major & minor officeholders, & a recapitulation of the number of slaves & slaveholders in 1850. Six plus, 20% discount. Call 1-800-484-8620, Ext. 5198 (orders only), 205-284-5138 (inquiries only), or 205-281-4904 (FAX). Richard Bailey Publishers, P.O. Box 1264, Montgomery, AL 36102-1264.

Author : C. J. Petit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Best friends
ISBN : OCLC:1392119278

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The Scalawags by C. J. Petit Pdf

Sergeant Sam Walker knew that the war was ending and he didn't want to die in this hole of a prisoner of war camp in Texas. But he knew that he was in much better shape than his best friend who was leaning against his back for support. Joe was a Texan who had been fighting alongside him for the seemingly unending war, and now was close to death in his native state. Joe knew he was never going to walk out those gates and taste his mother's pecan pie again and asked his friend from Iowa to go to his home and make sure that his wife and the baby girl he had never seen were all right. Sam told him he'd make it, but they both knew differently, so he promised that he would, and Joe knew that Sam would keep his promise. After Joe slipped away, Sam vowed that no matter how long it took, he'd fulfill the promise he's made to his best friend; his brother in arms.

Author : Edward H. Peeples
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813935409

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Scalawag by Edward H. Peeples Pdf

Scalawag tells the surprising story of a white working-class boy who became an unlikely civil rights activist. Born in 1935 in Richmond, where he was sent to segregated churches and schools, Ed Peeples was taught the ethos and lore of white supremacy by every adult in his young life. That message came with an equally cruel one—that, as the child of a wage-earning single mother, he was destined for failure. But by age nineteen Peeples became what the whites in his world called a "traitor to the race." Pushed by a lone teacher to think critically, Peeples found his way to the black freedom struggle and began a long life of activism. He challenged racism in his U.S. Navy unit and engaged in sit-ins and community organizing. Later, as a university professor, he agitated for good jobs, health care, and decent housing for all, pushed for the creation of African American studies courses at his university, and worked toward equal treatment for women, prison reform, and more. Peeples did most of his human rights work in his native Virginia, and his story reveals how institutional racism pervaded the Upper South as much as the Deep South. Covering fifty years' participation in the long civil rights movement, Peeples’s gripping story brings to life an unsung activist culture to which countless forgotten individuals contributed, over time expanding their commitment from civil rights to other causes. This engrossing, witty tale of escape from what once seemed certain fate invites readers to reflect on how moral courage can transform a life.

Author : William Warren Rogers
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Boulder (Colo.)
ISBN : 9780252031601

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A Scalawag in Georgia by William Warren Rogers Pdf

A controversial period in American history as revealed through one man's personal and political experiences

Author : Jeff Forret
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807131459

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Race Relations at the Margins by Jeff Forret Pdf

Covering a broad geographic scope from Virginia to South Carolina between 1820 and 1860, Jeff Forret scrutinizes relations among rural poor whites and slaves, a subject previously unexplored and certainly under-reported. Forret’s findings challenge historians’ long-held assumption that mutual violence and animosity characterized the two groups’ interactions; he reveals that while poor whites and slaves sometimes experienced bouts of hostility, often they worked or played in harmony and camaraderie. Race Relations at the Margins is remarkable for its focus on lower-class whites and their dealings with slaves outside the purview of the master. Race and class, Forret demonstrates, intersected in unique ways for those at the margins of southern society, challenging the belief that race created a social cohesion among whites regardless of economic status. As Forret makes apparent, colonial-era flexibility in race relations never entirely disappeared despite the institutionalization of slavery and the growing rigidity of color lines. His book offers a complex and nuanced picture of the shadowy world of slave–poor white interactions, demanding a refined understanding and new appreciation of the range of interracial associations in the Old South.

Author : Carol Clerk
Publisher : Universe
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-17
Category : Design
ISBN : IND:30000124786256

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Vintage Tattoos by Carol Clerk Pdf

Tattoos have gone from badges of rebellion to fashion statements fully absorbed into mainstream culture. They are enjoying a renaissance, with graphic designers and artists creating specialty tattoos for a growing audience, unleashing a revival of interest in the bawdy vintage tattoo. Old school tattoos are being rediscovered (sometimes ironically, sometimes not) by a new generation. Originally embraced by rebels, sailors, and gangsters, these tattoos—broken hearts, naked girls, floral motifs, and maritime emblems—are now showing up on the fashion runway and in music videos. This book chronicles vintage motifs in thematic chapters interspersed with profiles of influential tattoo artists and their distinctive designs: Sailor Jerry Collins, Don Ed Hardy ("the Godfather of Tattoos"), Mike "Rollo Banks" Malone, Bert Grimm, Japan’s Horiyoshi III, and Shanghai’s Pinky Yun.