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 ::the article explicitly calls it ""terror"" several times: eg his violence on behalf of the white Democrats in the Hamburg and Ellenton riots in the summer of 1876 secured his prominence among the state's white political elite and proved to be the deathblow to South Carolina's Republican Reconstruction government.""[2] The takeover, by fraud and terror, of South Carolina's government became known to whites as the state's ""Redemption"".[31]   "