Looking back at the radical Thaddeus Stevens | Black History Keystones
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- Historians find it hard to compartmentalize the character of Thaddeus Stevens in nineteenth-century politics. He prided himself as a proclaimed radical, but he was out of sorts with his contemporaries in the House.
However, many historians could surmise he was revolutionary, or the closest thing to it, in his position toward slavery and equal rights for Black Americans.
Stevens began as a scrappy boy in Vermont and grew up to be a boisterous and prominent statesman in central Pennsylvania. Historians said he was an "egalitarian to his bones" early in his political career.
Before the first shots rang out on Fort Sumter, Dr. Christine Heyrman, the Robert W. and Shirley P. Grimble Professor of American History at the University of Delaware, said Stevens saw the conflict with the Southern states as a way to forcefully end slavery.
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He was a century ahead of his time. He didn't just want slaves to be freed. He wanted them to have equal opportunity in education, healthcare, property ownership, and so on. No one was talking about that until 100 years later.
The irony is that a large minority of ex-confedderate soldiers lacked such opportunities, in large part because the Northern Armies had cost the South so much in lives and treasure. The North, by contrast, was greatly enriched. and its elites in full control of the government of the United States
He hated Lincoln's reconstruction policies, which Johnson was following, as they were not vindictive toward either race. Steven's hate-filled policies created the KKK and Jim Crow. He was as evil as he looked.
American hero
A unsung one
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what heppened to the republican party holy shit hahaha