James T.S. Taylor’s Reconstruction: Civil War and Civil Rights in Albemarle County, 1865-1902

November 5
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

The Center at Belvedere, Room 206

540 Belvedere Blvd.
Charlottesville, Virginia 22901

  • Contact: Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society
  • Phone: (434) 296-1492
Website

Tickets are free!

Langbourne Williams Professor of American History at UVA, Dr. Elizabeth Varon illuminates the political career of James T.S. Taylor, the United States Colored Troops veteran who represented Albemarle County in Virginia’s 1867-68 Constitutional Convention and who fought to modernize and democratize Virginia. Varon puts Taylor’s activism in the context of Southern Unionists’ struggle against the reconstructed rebels and “Lost Cause” propaganda.

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