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scallywag

(after the US Civil War) a White Southerner who supported the Republican Party and its policy of Black emancipation. Scallywags were viewed as traitors by their fellow Southerners
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Civil liberties were suspended, many plantations were confiscated and leased to 'carpetbaggers and scallawags' from the North, while 5,000 troops from the United States Colored Troops regiments patrolled the streets.
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