Lincoln, Douglas, and slavery
Subtitle: in the crucible of public debate
By: David Zarefsky.
Contributors: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Views on slavery; Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Description: Examines the dynamics of the Lincoln-Douglas debates ; sets the speeches in the context of the time and explains the complicated issue of slavery in the territories, the focal point around which they revolved.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-304) and index.