Unnamed Descendants of the German Carpetbagger

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Unnamed Descendants of the German Carpetbagger
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Unnamed Descendants of the German Carpetbagger
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White
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Female
Class: 
Middle Class
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Minor
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Alive
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In an implicit critique of the modern South, the narrative notes that the daughters of the German blacksmith who deserted from the Union Army to become one of the carpetbaggers who preyed on Jefferson in time "become matriarchs and grandmothers of the town's new aristocracy" (183).

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