{"id":48154,"date":"2021-11-15T06:25:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T12:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=48154"},"modified":"2021-11-15T06:25:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T12:25:31","slug":"know-your-real-civil-war-history-thaddeus-stevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/15\/know-your-real-civil-war-history-thaddeus-stevens\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Real Civil War History: Thaddeus Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48157\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/11\/stevensbookcover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amren.com\/features\/2021\/10\/adored-now-for-what-he-was-once-hated\/\">Adored Now for What He Was Once Hated<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>While I was reading this article I was reminded of Tommy Lee Jones portrayal of Thaddeus Stevens in the movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0443272\/\">Lincoln,<\/a> (which was in this writer&#8217;s opinion one of the most fantastical pieces of Civil War propaganda ever made) which among other things showed Steven&#8217;s to be in a &#8216;relationship&#8217; with his &#8220;Black housekeeper&#8221;, which history tells us was in fact <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lydia_Hamilton_Smith\">Lydia Hamilton Smith<\/a>, a woman of mixed blood (one quarter African). The movie however goes to great lengths to show Steven&#8217;s getting into bed with a woman whose skin color was as black as a bucket of tar. Spielberg&#8217;s gotta push race mixing regardless of the time period you know.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Republican celebrate, Democrats Lament XIII Amendment\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v2k8axZrH2o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adored Now for What He Was Once Hated &nbsp; While I was reading this article I was reminded of Tommy Lee Jones portrayal of Thaddeus Stevens in the movie Lincoln, (which was in this writer&#8217;s opinion one of the most fantastical pieces of Civil War propaganda ever made) which among other things showed Steven&#8217;s to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[475,476,477,8448,478,479,6096,2967],"tags":[9834,9835,9836],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}