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Interchange – Pushing Lincoln Left: Thaddeus Stevens as Revolutionary

Born in poverty in rural Vermont, the Pennsylvania politician, 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 true democracy which meant equal suffrage for all and more importantly the necessity of being a landowner. One of the foremost abolitionists in Congress in …

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