What do scalawages do?

Scalawags were southerners who cooperated with the civilian and military officials during Reconstruction. They would often take advantage of their fellow southerners through corruption and...

Southerners who supported the government for their own gain.

Scalawags were southerners who helped with reconstruction and often took away land and houses that the other southerners could afford to keep. They worked with the government for their own gain and...

SCALAWAG was a post civil war, reconstruction era term of insult for a white southerner who supported reconstruction efforts. The word comes down through the English language with various meanings...