Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Series of seven debates between Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln and Democratic Sen. Stephen A. Douglas in the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign. They focused on slavery and its extension into the western territories. Lincoln criticized Douglas for his support of popular sovereignty and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, while Douglas accused Lincoln of advocating racial equality and disruption of the Union. Douglas won reelection, but Lincoln's antislavery position and oratorical brilliance made him a national figure in the young Republican Party.

In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, challenged on whether he considered a black woman his equal, Lincoln replied, "In some respects she is certainly not my equal; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands without asking leave of anyone else, she is my equal, and the equal of all others.

Behind the Jeffersonian Veneer: the author of The Politically ... by Young, Cathy / Reason

To the historical material the reader would expect in such a work, the author has added chapters on the legacy and aftermath of the Declaration, including its use by Lincoln in the Lincoln-Douglas debates, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the 1848 Declaration of Sentiment at the Seneca Falls Convention, and even by Ho Chi Minh in his declaration of independence of the Vietnamese people in 1949.

Driver, Stephanie Schwartz. Words changed the world: the Declaration ... by Moore, Patricia / Kliatt

Two hyper-educated, successful and civil African-American men with very different philosophies vying for a Senate seat in the land of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

Faith in U.S. democracy undermined by Goldberg, Jonah / Los Angeles Business Journal

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