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Author : Bradley R. Hoch
Release : 2005
Genre : Abolitionists
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Book Rating : 207/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Thaddeus Stevens in Gettysburg by : Bradley R. Hoch
Download or read book Thaddeus Stevens in Gettysburg written by Bradley R. Hoch. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce Levine
Release : 2022-03
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 387/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Thaddeus Stevens by : Bruce Levine
Download or read book Thaddeus Stevens written by Bruce Levine. This book was released on 2022-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “powerful” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of one of the 19th century’s greatest statesmen, encompassing his decades-long fight against slavery and his postwar struggle to bring racial justice to America. Thaddeus Stevens was among the first to see the Civil War as an opportunity for a second American revolution—a chance to remake the country as a genuine multiracial democracy. As one of the foremost abolitionists in Congress in the years leading up to the war, he was a leader of the young Republican Party’s radical wing, fighting for anti-slavery and anti-racist policies long before party colleagues like Abraham Lincoln endorsed them. These policies—including welcoming black men into the Union’s armies—would prove crucial to the Union war effort. During the Reconstruction era that followed, Stevens demanded equal civil and political rights for Black Americans—rights eventually embodied in the 14th and 15th amendments. But while Stevens in many ways pushed his party—and America—towards equality, he also championed ideas too radical for his fellow Congressmen ever to support, such as confiscating large slaveholders’ estates and dividing the land among those who had been enslaved. In Thaddeus Stevens, acclaimed historian Bruce Levine has written a “vital” (The Guardian), “compelling” (James McPherson) biography of one of the most visionary statesmen of the 19th century and a forgotten champion for racial justice in America.
Author : Thaddeus Stevens
Release : 1865
Genre : Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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Book Synopsis Speech of Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, Gettysburg, Pa., October 3rd, 1865 by : Thaddeus Stevens
Download or read book Speech of Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, Gettysburg, Pa., October 3rd, 1865 written by Thaddeus Stevens. This book was released on 1865. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thaddeus Stevens
Release : 1997
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1 by : Thaddeus Stevens
Download or read book The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1 written by Thaddeus Stevens. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as "the most important congressman in the House of Representatives during the Civil War" and still honored in Pennsylvania as the father of its public school system, Thaddeus Stevens grappled in his day with many of the issues that confront us today: racial and economic equality, affirmative action, and equal access to education. Volume one of the projected two-volume edition of "The Papers of Thaddeus Stevens" covers Steven's political career from his Vermont youth to the end of the Civil War. It includes letters and speeches from his early days as a Gettysburg lawyer and as a representative in the Pennsylvania assembly through his antislavery efforts to the 1865 passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, freeing all slaves.
Author : Hans L. Trefousse
Release : 2000-11-09
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 994/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Thaddeus Stevens by : Hans L. Trefousse
Download or read book Thaddeus Stevens written by Hans L. Trefousse. This book was released on 2000-11-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most controversial figures in nineteenth-century American history, Thaddeus Stevens is best remembered for his role as congressional leader of the radical Republicans and as a chief architect of Reconstruction. Long painted by historians as a vindictive 'dictator of Congress,' out to punish the South at the behest of big business and his own ego, Stevens receives a more balanced treatment in Hans L. Trefousse's biography, which portrays him as an impassioned orator and a leader in the struggle against slavery. Trefousse traces Stevens's career through its major phases: from his days in the Pennsylvania state legislature, when he antagonized Freemasons, slaveholders, and Jacksonian Democrats, to his political involvement during Reconstruction, when he helped author the Fourteenth Amendment and spurred on the passage of the Reconstruction Acts and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Throughout, Trefousse explores the motivations for Stevens's lifelong commitment to racial equality, thus furnishing a fuller portrait of the man whose fervent opposition to slavery helped move his more moderate congressional colleagues toward the implementation of egalitarian policies.
