Born on the 4th April 1792, in Danville, Vermont, United States, Thaddeus Stevens was known to be a fearsome reformer, who never backed down from a fight. Having witnessed the oppressive slave system at close range, he developed a fierce hatred of bondage and defended numbers of fugitives without a fee.⁠
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He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives during Abraham Lincoln's presidency, he dedicated his life to abolishing enslavement and helped draft the 14th Amendment during Reconstruction.⁠
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Being an ardent abolitionist, he championed the rights of blacks for decades up to, during, and after the Civil War. After the war he emerged as one of the most militant of the Radical Republicans, consistently striving for justice for the black masses. Alongside other Radical Republicans, he agitated for emancipation, black fighting units, and black suffrage. After the war, he favored dividing up Southern plantations among the freed slaves.⁠
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