Lincoln, Douglas, and the Moral Soul of America | EP19 The TAC Podcast
Why did Abraham Lincoln believe America could not endure half slave and half free? Why did Stephen Douglas insist that the nation should stop debating the morality of slavery altogether?
In this episode, TAC tutors John Finley and Chris Decaen examine the final two Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, the famous political contest that helped launch Lincoln onto the national stage just two years before his election to the presidency. Together, they explore the central questions that divided the candidates: slavery, states' rights, popular sovereignty, the Dred Scott decision, and the future of the…
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