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primary source document analysis: document b thaddeus stevens march 19, 1867, on the bill - radical reconstruction plan

the cause of the war was slavery. we have liberated the slaves. it is our duty to protect them, and provide for them while they are unable to provide for themselves….the first section orders the confiscation of all the property belonging to the confederate state governments, and the national government of the confederate states of rebel states had taken themselves out of the union when they seceded; now they should be dealt with as u. s. territories, hence the division of these lands into 5 districts with military leaders we have government will have to ratify the proposed 14th amendment, their new constitutions approved by the us congress, and every african american male must be granted suffrage (the right to vote).

whatever may be the fate of the rest of the bill, i must earnestly pray that this may not be defeated. on its success, in my judgment, depends not only the happiness and respectability of the colored race, but their very existence. four million of persons have just been freed from a condition of dependence, they are unacquainted with business transactions, kept systematically in ignorance of all their rights and deprived of education, without which none of any race are competent to earn an honest living… they will be unable to guard against the frauds which will always be practiced on the but few of them are mechanics, and none of them skilled manufacturers.

they must necessarily, therefore, be the servants and victims of others, unless they are made in some measure independent of their wiser neighbors. the protection of the freedmen's bureau, that service institution, cannot be expected long to protect them. it encounters the hostility and anger of the old slaveholders, whether in public or private conversations, because it deprives these dethroned tyrants (former slaveholders) of the luxury of despotism and violent attitudes towards their former slaves, whom they see as lesser men. withdraw that protection and leave the african american a prey to the treatment of their former masters, who will write legal laws and commit illegal crimes that no one will protect the african american from the african americans all their rights, and leave them poor and distressed - without the means of earning a livelihood, the victims of the hatred of the southern confederates whom they to conquer, and it seems probable that the war of races might

analysis questions:

1) why does thaddeus stevens think the confederate states should be treated as territories?

2) what are two arguments thaddeus stevens makes to convince his audience that the radical reconstruction bill must be passed? provide evidence for your claims. in the last paragraph, thaddeus stevens explains what he thinks will happen to african americans if the us government does not protect them.

3)what does he fear will happen if they are not protected?