C. The Upper Class
In other words, those with money and controlling production.
The redeemers were the southern wing of the Bourbon Democrats, the conservative, pro-business faction in the Democratic Party, who pursued a policy of Redemption, seeking to oust the Radical Republicans a coalition of freedom, "carpetbaggers", and "scalawags" (poorer non-slaving whites).
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a) the study of the political, social, cultural, and economic setting surrounding a historical event
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