South Carolina Scalawags

Name: South Carolina Scalawags
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ISBN: 9781570036255

ISBN-10: 157003625X

ISBN-13: 9781570036255

Edition: 2006

Authors: Hyman Rubin, Hyman Rubin

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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…

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List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Publication date: 5/30/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 232
Size: 7.20" wide x 9.30" long x 0.84" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface : Reconstruction in South Carolina


Introduction : the scalawags and the historians



Origins of the scalawags, 1865-1867



The Republican alternative



The Democratic counterattack



The perils of faction



Moderation in pursuit of justice


Epilogue : white Republicans after Reconstruction



South Carolina white Republicans - a preliminary compendium



Known Republicans who joined the 1872 Bolting movement