S. Epatha Merkerson credited as playing...
Lydia Smith
- Thaddeus Stevens: Read it to me again, my love.
- Lydia Smith: "Proposed..."
- Thaddeus Stevens: And adopted.
- Lydia Smith: Adopted. "An Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Section One: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
- Thaddeus Stevens: Section Two...
- Lydia Smith: "Congress shall have power to enforce this amendment by appropriate legislation..."
- Thaddeus Stevens: I wish you had been present.
- Lydia Smith: I wish I'd been.
- Thaddeus Stevens: It was a spectacle.
- Lydia Smith: You can't bring your housekeeper to the House. I won't give them gossip.