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Thaddeus Stevens fought even harder for black equality than the Great Emancipator. THE NEW YORK TIMES called him “the Evil Genius of the Republican Party.” The Confederate army that invaded Pennsylvania in 1863 dispatched cavalry to burn down his iron foundry, just to spite him. The president of the United States suggested that he should …
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