Southern Types-The Wolf and the Lamb in Politics
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Title
Southern Types-The Wolf and the Lamb in Politics
Subject
African Americans, politics, race relations
Description
Like many white Southerners, white Virginians feared that African American support would lead to Radical Republican domination in state politics. Hostile whites described African American voters as easily manipulated by unscrupulous northerners (called carpetbaggers) and their rapacious local accomplices (called scalawags), but such beliefs were unwarranted, and many former slaves and free blacks achieved remarkable success considering the disadvantages under which they labored and the impediments that they often faced in the decades after emancipation.
Creator
James Wells Champney
Source
Illustration in Library of Virginia, Prints and Photographs Division from Edward King, The Great South... (1875)
Publisher
Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company
Date
ca. 1875
Contributor
Library of Virginia
Rights
CC BY-SA
Format
JPG
Type
Engraving
Identifier
15_0962_001 Southern Types
Coverage
Southern United States
Citation
James Wells Champney, “Southern Types-The Wolf and the Lamb in Politics,” Remaking Virginia: Transformation Through Emancipation, accessed December 25, 2024, https://virginiamemory.com/online-exhibitions/items/show/614.