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2009
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scal·a·wag
/ ˈskaləˌwag/
(also scal·ly·wag
/ ˈskalē-/ )
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n. inf.
a person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way; a rascal.
∎ hist.
a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit.
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The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction
Magazine article from: South Carolina Historical Magazine; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...attempt to analyze the scalawags over the entire former...identified and profiled 742 scalawag-Republicans and a...about South Carolina scalawags are appropriate. The...notorious and corrupt scalawags, most particularly...most frequently invoked scalawag caricature. Moses was...
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South Carolina Scalawags.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Reconstruction? As to scalawag identity, Rubin...scholars, he finds scalawags coming from varied...this point, many scalawags gave up their efforts...evolution of the scalawag identity. Some...term failure of scalawag reform and the virtual disappearance of scalawags as an element ...
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The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...general history of the scalawags; surprising, that...biography of southern scalawag leaders compiled...and replaced" the scalawags in the same major...analysis of the scalawag leaders by dividing...gives the number of scalawag leaders as 742...questions: who were the scalawags and ...
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South Carolina Scalawags
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 8/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...better position to examine scalawag leaders. Sometimes, however...fails to make clear whether scalawags as a group played a distinct...effort to examine whether scalawag legislators pursued a clear...categories of carpetbaggers, scalawags, and African Americans...
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A Scalawag in Georgia: Richard Whiteley and the Politics of Reconstruction.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 8/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; A Scalawag in Georgia: Richard Whiteley...carpetbaggers, blacks, or scalawags, where sparse primary source...and travails of Georgia scalawag Richard Henry Whiteley...harass carpetbaggers and scalawags, and commit fraud at almost...
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A Scalawag in Georgia: Richard Whiteley and the Politics of Reconstruction
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 8/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; A Scalawag in Georgia: Richard Whiteley...carpetbaggers, blacks, or scalawags, where sparse primary source...and travails of Georgia scalawag Richard Henry Whiteley...harass carpetbaggers and scalawags, and commit fraud at almost...
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Creating "the Propaganda of History": Southern Editors and the Origins of Carpetbagger and Scalawag
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...effective propaganda tool than scalawag. As molded by newsmen, images...government than depictions of scalawags did. Equally important...in the North in a way that scalawag imagery did not. Not surprisingly...businessmen-than to those of scalawags, who were largely anonymous...
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Creating "the propaganda of history": southern editors and the origins of carpetbagger and scalawag.
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...effective propaganda tool than scalawag. As molded by newsmen, images...government than depictions of scalawags did. Equally important...in the North in a way that scalawag imagery did not. Not surprisingly...businessmen--than to those of scalawags, who were largely anonymous...
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'Negro' and 'scalawag' still labels used in S.C.
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 5/30/2009; ; 497 words
; ...former politicians as "Negro" or "scalawag" -- apparent remnants of disgruntlement...book. The reason why "Negro" and "scalawag" are included -- when the first woman...Civil War. For example, the term "scalawag" was used to refer to white Southerners...
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Philippine police lists 356 scalawags in uniform
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 9/23/2002; 295 words
; Philippine police lists 356 scalawags in uniform MANILA, Sept. 23 (Xinhua...PNP) announced on Monday that 356 scalawags in uniform are under investigations...Ebdane, said that among the 356 scalawags, 132 have been identified with criminal...
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Scalawags
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
SCALAWAGS "Scalawag" was a derogatory term used by recalcitrant...State legislatures. Many of these "Scalawags" came from small farm, non-slaveholding...slave-owning white neighbors. The Scalawags and many former slaves tried to join...
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Scalawag
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
SCALAWAG SCALAWAG, originally used to describe runty or diseased cattle, was the term of opprobrium applied to white southerners who joined with former slaves and carpet-baggers in support of Republican policies during the Reconstruction period...
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scalawags
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
scalawags , derogatory term used in the South after the Civil War to describe native white Southerners who joined the Republican party and aided in carrying out the congressional Reconstruction program. A Republican who came from the north was called a carpetbagger .
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scalawag
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
scal·a·wag / ˈskaləˌwag / (also scal·ly·wag / ˈskalē- / ) • n. inf. a person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way; a rascal. ∎ hist. a white Southerner who collaborated with northern
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Cardiff, Jack
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Litvak) 1960 Fanny (Logan) 1968 The Girl on a Motorcycle (Naked under Leather ; La Motocyclette ) (+ d, co-sc) 1973 Scalawag (Douglas) 1976 Ride a Wild Pony (Chaffey) 1978 Death on the Nile (Guillermin); The Prince and the Pauper (Crossed Swords...
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