Unnamed Carpetbaggers

Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Fri, 2016-06-24 14:39
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Go Down, Moses
Character Key: 
Unnamed Carpetbaggers 1
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Unnamed Carpetbaggers
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Unnamed Carpetbaggers
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Lower Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
McCaslin Commissary in Go Down, Moses (Location)
Biography: 

The "carpet-bagger followers of victorious armies" (265) and their descendants, the men who did not fight in the Civil War but merely profited from it, are mentioned several times in Go Down, Moses, by the narrator and by McCaslin Edmonds. They are defined by “a single fierce will for rapine and pillage” (276).

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Group
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