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- catalog abstract ""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 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, whom he then compares and contrasts with their counterparts - 666 redeemer-Democrats who opposed and 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, Republican Party involvement, war record, and postwar political activities, he finds striking uniformity among scalawags despite their regional differences and varying circumstances." "This first Southwide study of the scalawags rescues from the shadows once-vilified men who are vital to understanding Reconstruction and illustrates the events surrounding their political decisions. Its scope and astounding wealth in quantity and quality of sources - census data, manuscripts, and newspapers, to name a few - make it the definitive work on the subject."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12655096.
- catalog coverage "Confederate States of America Politics and government.".
- catalog coverage "Southern States Politics and government 1775-1865.".
- catalog coverage "Southern States Politics and government 1865-1950.".
- catalog coverage "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Public opinion.".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""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, Republican Party involvement, war record, and postwar political activities, he finds striking uniformity among scalawags despite their regional differences and varying circumstances."".
- catalog description ""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."".
- catalog description ""James Alex Baggett's The Scalawags 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, whom he then compares and contrasts with their counterparts - 666 redeemer-Democrats who opposed and 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."".
- catalog description ""This first Southwide study of the scalawags rescues from the shadows once-vilified men who are vital to understanding Reconstruction and illustrates the events surrounding their political decisions. Its scope and astounding wealth in quantity and quality of sources - census data, manuscripts, and newspapers, to name a few - make it the definitive work on the subject."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "In search of the Scalawags -- Antebellum origins -- Opposing secession -- Resisting the rebels -- Wartime reconstruction -- Postwar disillusionment -- Only one remedy -- Not so sweet a victory -- The birth of a party -- Turning the corner both ways -- Summing up the Scalawags.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-307) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 323 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0807127981 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Confederate States of America Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States Politics and government 1775-1865.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States Politics and government 1865-1950.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States".
- catalog spatial "Southern States.".
- catalog spatial "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Public opinion.".
- catalog subject "975/.03 21".
- catalog subject "Dissenters Southern States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "E487 .B34 2003".
- catalog subject "Politicians Southern States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Public opinion Southern States.".
- catalog subject "Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)".
- catalog subject "Reconstruction.".
- catalog subject "Unionists (United States Civil War) History.".
- catalog subject "Whites Southern States Politics and government 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "In search of the Scalawags -- Antebellum origins -- Opposing secession -- Resisting the rebels -- Wartime reconstruction -- Postwar disillusionment -- Only one remedy -- Not so sweet a victory -- The birth of a party -- Turning the corner both ways -- Summing up the Scalawags.".
- catalog title "The Scalawags : southern dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction / James Alex Baggett.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".