Yale University EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale MSSA Kaplan Prize for Use of MSSA Collections Library Prizes 2020 The Apostle of Dissent: J. Hendrix McLane's Fight Against History in Post-Reconstruction South Carolina Steven Rome Yale University Follow this and additional works at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/mssa_collections Recommended Citation Rome, Steven, "The Apostle of Dissent: J. Hendrix McLane's Fight Against History in Post-Reconstruction South Carolina" (2020). MSSA Kaplan Prize for Use of MSSA Collections. 21. https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/mssa_collections/21 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Library Prizes at EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale. It has been accepted for inclusion in MSSA Kaplan Prize for Use of MSSA Collections by an authorized administrator of EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. THE APOSTLE OF DISSENT J. HENDRIX MCLANE’S FIGHT AGAINST HISTORY IN POST-RECONSTRUCTION SOUTH CAROLINA Steven Rome Undergraduate Senior Essay History Department Yale University Adviser: Professor David W. Blight April 13, 2020 Table of Contents I. Introduction: Return of the Red-Shirts . 2 II. Awake, Awake, Awake, Brother Farmers!: Agrarian Revolts, 1876–79 . 8 III. A Regular Old ’76 Time: McLane on the Ballot, 1880–84 . 16 IV. This Mutual Cooperation: Crossing the Sectional Boundary, 1886–88 . 27 V. The South More Surely Solid: Returning Home, 1889–94 . 36 VI. Conclusion: A Piercing Light of Prophecy . 46 Bibliographic Essay . 52 Bibliography . 58 Acknowledgments . 61 [ii] J.