How radical, in economic terms, were the Radical Republicans?

The radicalism of the Radical Republicans was more
political than it was economic.  The Radical Republicans' economic plan was really not
particularly radical.

Some of these men were willing to
propose radical plans.  Thaddeus Stevens, for example, proposed land redistribution in
the South.  He proposed that the largest estates in the South should be broken up and
distributed to poor whites, freed slaves, and even to Northern land buyers.  This would
truly have been radical.

As it was, however, the Radicals
did not do anything very radical in economic terms.  They did not even give any land
(not even the proverbial 40 acres and a mule) to the freed slaves.  The Radicals did do
radical things in politics, but they did not do anything particularly radical in
economics.