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The court case that launched Thaddeus Stevens's crusade against slavery - Gettysburg Connection

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Thaddeus Stevens was riding high in the early 1820s. He was a young up-and-coming lawyer in the prosperous town of Gettysburg. Then he took a case involving a fugitive slave that would change his life and the course of American history forever. Born in Vermont, the first state to ban slavery in 1777, it would be expected that Stevens would be anti-slavery. Add to that, he had a club foot which would make him sympathetic to the less fortunate. Bu…

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