Unnamed People in the Reconstruction South

In Chapter 5 Rosa Coldfield tells Quentin about the time immediately following the South's defeat in the Civil War. She was there at the time, but the various groups of people she identifies and the roles she assigns them are also the stereotypes that were constructed by the school of historians who sought to justify the rise of segregation that followed the failure of reconstruction: "That was the winter when we began to learn what carpet-bagger meant and people - women - locked doors and windows at night and began to frighten each other with tales of negro uprisings" (130).