JIGSAW GENS

Redeemers — A Legacy of Moxie & Appetition

The Redeemers (“Baby Grangers” or “Purple Shirts”) forced society’s hand on exploring suffrage, abolition, and hegemonic capitalism

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During the second half of last year, I launched my “Jigsaw Gens” series through which I profiled the eight main generations of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. They included, chronologically: Hemingrebels, GI-Gens, Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, GenXers, Millennials, Zoomers, and Alphas.

My current phase of “Jigsaw Gens” is to track the generations who dominated the Nineteenth Century and earlier. So far, I have profiled the Missionary, Stowegressive, and Golden Renegade generations.

So who came before the Golden Renegades?

That would be members of the generation whom I dub the “Redeemers.”

Who They Are

Redeemers were born approximately between 1816 to 1827 — give or take a few years on either end. They cross over between the Transcendental (“prophets” and “idealists”) and Gilded (“nomads” and “reactives”) cohorts as constructed by historians William Strauss and Neil Howe. These kids would grow up to be involved in — or opposed to (or witnessing) — the Redemption…