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 March 29, 2024, https://www.virginiamemory.com/online-exhibitions/items/show/614.