Phillip W. Magness

U.S. Economic & Political History

Thaddeus Stevens, Colonization, and the 13th Amendment

| February 4, 2015

Last Saturday marked the 150th anniversary of the day the 13th Amendment passed the House of Representatives, securing its submission to the states for ratification. This momentous event – marking the abolition of slavery in the United States – has received increased attention in light of the Civil War sesquicentennial, as well as its 2012 dramatization […]

Thaddeus Stevens, Colonizationist?

| December 18, 2013

  Thaddeus Stevens has enjoyed something of an academic as well as popular revival in recent years, becoming known as something of an archetype of that all-too-rare character in mid 19th century American politics: a racial egalitarian. He was also an abolitionist of some note and, most famously, the de facto leader of the radicals […]