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Episode 195: A New Bronze Man

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The Statue of Thaddeus Stevens in Gettysburg, Penn.

A new statue of thaddeus stevens has been put up in gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He was a radical who fought against the expansion of slavery before the civil war. His life story finds him again and again on the right side of history. It is y a bad bet to assume the worst of powerful white men whose power was accrued during times when so much of it was wielded by people like them.

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