Neither Topsies Nor Toms: Fact versus Fiction in Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s Army Life in a Black Regiment

Raymond Krohn

Neither Topsies Nor Toms: Fact versus Fiction in Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s Army Life in a Black Regiment

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The paper examines public representations of African Americans by leading antislavery-oriented white writers during the Civil War era, assaying their inability to genuinely comprehend enslaved Africans and their descendants in North America.

Original language	American English
State	Published - 2021
Event	American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, Virtual Gathering - Virtual Duration: 1 Jan 2021 → …

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Conference	American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, Virtual Gathering
Period	1/01/21 → …

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Neither Topsies Nor Toms: Fact versus Fiction in Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s Army Life in a Black Regiment

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