Sara’s Reviews > Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880 > Status Update

After two months of reading this most nights before bed words like "carpetbagger", "scalawag" and "buccaneer" have crept into my dreams thanks to sick burns like this: "The number of representatives in the legislature who could neither read nor write, during the 7 years of carpetbag rule in Florida, was six, of whom four were white."