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Chargement... The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstructionpar James Alex Baggett
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 4070 The Scalawags Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction, by James Alex Baggett (read 11 Sep 2005) When I saw this book I thought of the good book I read 25 Dec 1990 called Those Terrible Carpetbaggers, which studied with some discernment the careers of ten Northerners in the post-Civil War South. But this book takes a different approach in its study of Southerners who cooperated with the Republicans after the Civil War. It examines who were scalawags and what they did. No effort is made to understand the individuals and there is an appendix full of statistics on Scalawags and "Redeemers" and reaching some obvious conclusions about them. I found this book of minor interest--it jumped around from state to state in a very haphazard way. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
In Thomas Dixon's novel that became the film The Birth of a Nation, the scalawag - a white southerner who supported Congressional Reconstruction and the Republican Party - is summarized as a Judas Iscariot who sold his people for thirty pieces of silver, which he got for licking the feet of his conqueror and fawning on his Negro allies. Departures from this stereotypical view have appeared slowly since the 1940s as important revisionist historians dispelled the negative connotations surrounding scalawags - but only on a state-by-state basis. James Alex Baggett's The Scalawags ambitiously uncovers the genesis of scalawag leaders in the entire former Confederacy. Taking the period of the 1850s to 1870s, Baggett uses a collective-biography approach to compile profiles of 742 scalawag-Republicans. 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, stand on secession, Republican Party invo Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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