Thaddeus Stevens, for example, a key member among radical Republicans in congress during the Civil War and Reconstruction, proposed a much more severe Reconstruction plan which called to balance the wealth between former slaves and former plantation owners in the South. ... In the center of his cartoon, Nast drew a Shakespearean motif to cast Johnson as the evil Iago plotting against a black wounded Union veteran who is denied with his promised and justified place in American political life. Around the central characters are cruel drawing scenes implying the violent acts against African Amer...

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