THE LINCOLN-DOUGLASS DEBATES

LINCOLN-DOUGLASS HISTORY

• They have been rivals for a long time
• Lincoln was against the Kansas-Nebraska act
• Douglass was the author of the Kansas-Nebraska act
• Not to mention the both liked the same girl

STEPHEN DOUGLASS

• Douglass was pro slavery
• Douglass thought as if slavery was legal
• Douglass painted lincoln as a dangerous abolitionist
• Douglass in the end won the senate election

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

• Against slavery
• Predicted slavery would die out on its own
• He stood against the spread of slavery
• These debates made Lincoln known throughout the country