| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

South Carolina Scalawags. By Hyman Rubin III. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. xxx, 192 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-57003-625-X.)
The white South often seems like the primary protagonist of so many Gothic novels: a large and ancient family with a closet full of dirty secrets. Nowhere is that tendency more evident than in the era of Civil War and Reconstruction. Most scholars have diagnosed the region with a massive case of historical amnesia where this period is concerned, an amnesia that results in the construction of a historical narrative that bears little relationship to reality.	1
South Carolina Scalawags, a new work by Hyman Rubin III, explores the experience of a largely forgotten group of that era: native whites who threw in their lot with the Republican party. Members of this group, in the traditional white southern narrative, have borne the title of "scalawags," when southerners have chosen to allow them into the narrative at all. Rubin notes that even in the historiography of Reconstruction, the scalawag has appeared either as a political opportunist or as a mysterious figure with hidden motives.	. . .

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