Chapter 4 The Limits of Liberalism in the New South: The Politics of Race, Sex, and Patronage in Virginia, 1879-1883

Huck Finn, Land Pirate

“…Readjusters persisted until the early 1880s, when their influence was curtailed in large part by a "miscegenation panic" that raised suspicion among white members. 45 Not surprisingly, these movements of the 1870s dovetailed smoothly with forms of populism that emerged in the 1880s. 46 As agricultural and industrial workers throughout the South and the Midwest recognized their mutual opposition to corporate monopolies and unfavorable monetary policy in the 1880s and 1890s, they were also forced to espy shared interests that transgressed the color line.…”