Definitionn. a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War
Last update: June 7, 2015
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Huckelberry Finn was a scalawag. [Please select]
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Probably no other southern state suffered equally with Louisiana from the corruption of " carpet-bag," " scalawag," negro legislatures. [Please select]
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"An' what's more, you old scalawag," said the policeman, "I'm going to run _you_ in." [Please select]
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I ran off to sea soon after they were married, like the young scalawag I was. [Please select]
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To hear that scalawag Prendergast talk, he's been Hugh Stires' good angel--the oily hypocrite. [Please select]
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But most Southerners preferred the rule of the army to the alternative reign of the carpetbagger, scalawag, and Negro. [Please select]
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The carpetbagger had found that he could control the Negro without the help of the scalawag. [Please select]
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Almost invariably the scalawag disliked the Leaguer, black or white, and as a political teacher often found himself proscribed by the League. [Please select]
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