Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century EgalitarianUniv of North Carolina Press, 2000 M11 9 - 336 páginas 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. |
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... wrote , “ he obliged the fifth commandment to the fullest extent . In his estimation , his mother was everything great , noble , and good . To the last day of his life he was never weary of talking about her . This childlike affection ...
... wrote , “ he obliged the fifth commandment to the fullest extent . In his estimation , his mother was everything great , noble , and good . To the last day of his life he was never weary of talking about her . This childlike affection ...
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... wrote to her faithfully , but when he tried to induce her to join him in Pennsyl- vania , he found that she minded the absence of a Baptist church in the immedi- ate vicinity . Eager to satisfy her , he decided to have one built and ...
... wrote to her faithfully , but when he tried to induce her to join him in Pennsyl- vania , he found that she minded the absence of a Baptist church in the immedi- ate vicinity . Eager to satisfy her , he decided to have one built and ...
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... wrote a tragedy in three acts , " The Fall of Helvetic Liberty , " which was performed prior to commencement in 1813 , and in which Napoleon , French generals , and their Swiss counterparts constituted the dramatis personae . But again ...
... wrote a tragedy in three acts , " The Fall of Helvetic Liberty , " which was performed prior to commencement in 1813 , and in which Napoleon , French generals , and their Swiss counterparts constituted the dramatis personae . But again ...
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... wrote many years later , " Man can enjoy no happiness , unless his body , and his mind , are free from dis- ease . . . . Intemperance , never in a single instance , fails to deprive its victim of some portion of his bodily or mental ...
... wrote many years later , " Man can enjoy no happiness , unless his body , and his mind , are free from dis- ease . . . . Intemperance , never in a single instance , fails to deprive its victim of some portion of his bodily or mental ...
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... confusion between Thad and his nephew with the same name , who many years later wrote a letter detailing the story about himself . Not only was the elder Stevens never expelled , but he bore the college no ill 6 STEVENS ← → THADDEUS.
... confusion between Thad and his nephew with the same name , who many years later wrote a letter detailing the story about himself . Not only was the elder Stevens never expelled , but he bore the college no ill 6 STEVENS ← → THADDEUS.
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Legislative Leader | 37 |
AntiMason in Trouble | 48 |
Reluctant Coalitionist | 62 |
Antislavery Whig | 73 |
Emerging Republican | 87 |
Lincolns Critic and Eulogist | 150 |
Radical Reconstructionist | 161 |
Fugleman of the Joint Committee | 174 |
Leader of the ThirtyNinth Congress | 189 |
Thwarted Congressional Manager | 200 |
Archfoe of the President | 210 |
Defeated Radical | 224 |
Epilogue | 239 |
Unionist Advocate | 100 |
War Leader | 111 |
Republican Firebrand | 124 |
Radical of Radicals | 137 |
Notes | 247 |
Bibliography | 287 |
Index | 301 |
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Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian Hans Louis Trefousse Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |
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