Veteran, author, activist: Joseph T. Wilson of Norfolk and black leadership in the Civil War era

Elizabeth R. Varon

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Chapter 5: Veteran, author, activist: Joseph T. Wilson of Norfolk and black leadership in the Civil War era

Elizabeth R. Varon

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Category:: Monograph Chapter

Published:: 26 Jan 2018

Page Range:: 84–98

Collection:: Social and Political Science 2018

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788112857.00012

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Chapter 5 discusses the life and work of Joseph T. Wilson, a Civil War veteran, through his literary career. Rather than examining Wilson’s book, The Black Phalanx: African American Soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War, solely as a reference work, Elizabeth R. Varon argues that Wilson’s career as a writer was inseparable from his political activism. In this chapter, Varon considers how Wilson’s lived experiences during the war and, later, in postwar Norfolk impacted and informed his writing.

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Reconstruction and the Arc of Racial (in)Justice

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Julian M. Hayter

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George R. Goethals

Monograph Book

Published:: 26 Jan 2018

Print ISBN:: 9781788112840

eISBN:: 9781788112857

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788112857

Pages:: 200

Collection:: Social and Political Science 2018

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- Politics and Public Policy
  - Human Rights
  - Leadership

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