The man who proposed reparations in the 1860s
Abe Lincoln's forgotten abolitionist ally
June 3, 2021
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The man who proposed reparations in the 1860s
Summary
Vox’s Dylan Matthews talks with historian Bruce Levine about his book Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary and Fighter for Racial Justice. They discuss how Stevens — a person with anti-racist ideals so far outside the mainstream of his time — managed to be so effective, how he developed those ideals in the first place, and how to continue his fight today.
Host: Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt), Senior Correspondent, Vox
Guest: Bruce Levine, Author; Professor (emeritus) of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
References:
Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary and Fighter for Racial Justice by Bruce Levine (Simon & Schuster; 2021)
Lincoln (2012; directed by Steven Spielberg; written by Tony Kushner, based on Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns-Goodwin)
The Birth of a Nation (1915; directed by D.W. Griffith; written by D.W. Griffith and Frank E. Woods)
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy (1956)
The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution that Transformed the South by Bruce Levine (2014; Random House)
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