James T.S. Taylor’s Reconstruction: Civil War and Civil Rights in Albemarle County, 1865-1902
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Wednesday, Nov 5, 2025 5pm
Location
The Center at Belvedere
Room 206
540 Belvedere Blvd
Charlottesville, VA 22901
Details
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 | 5:00 p.m. at The Center at Belvedere, Room 206
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.
