Every day proves Thaddeus Stevens right: there should've been big Nuremberg-style public trials of leading Confederates, accompanied by seizures of the assets of all pro-Confederate large landowners and businessmen, which should then have been distributed to freed slaves as compensation.
There's a lot rightly written about the whole Jim Crow state-funded projects of building public Confederate statues and memorials, but the flipside is that the few to figures like Stevens and John Brown were overwhelmingly private projects paid for by local Black communities as acts of gratitude.
Yup, and I really wish that was more broadly known and better integrated into our general history education. I grew up with the "madman" canard about Brown and didn't even learn Stevens's name until I was in my 20s.
