CARPETBAGGER • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Carpetbagger

... mentioned instances of commendable Negro officials, however, the majority of the Negro functionaries were incompetent and as a result these governments could but collapse. The charge of corruption laid at the door of the Negro carpetbagger governments is to a large extent true. The corruption resulted largely from the work of the interlopers from the North and the "scalawags," using the Negroes to reach their own personal ends. In some of this corruption, however, ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 • Various