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He believed that the people of each new state should vote on whether it should be a slave-state or free soil.
He failed to see that each time a new state went to the polls, every bully-boy in the USA would descend on that one state, to try to influence the vote, either legally by buying a cheap property to qualify as a voter, or illegally, by intmidating the local citizens and trying to get the result declared to be rigged.
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JordanBy all accounts, Senator Stephan A. Douglas was against slavery. And, as was the norm in the US and on a world wide basis in the middle of the 19th century, many people had the belief that either their nationality, ethic group or race, placed them above other peoples. This is an outdated and wrong idea.
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Was Frederick Douglass born into slavery?
Yes he was born into slavery.
Who were Stephen Douglas's parents?
his parents were Stephen A. Douglass and Sarah Fisk
How were the blacks freed from slavery?
Harriet TubmanFrederick Douglass
Which former slave lectured eloquently in favor of abolition?
Stephen Douglass, was an eloquent speaker who escaped slavery. Although teaching slaves to read was illegal, Douglass managed, through creative means, to learn to read. He escaped slavery and managed to get to London, where his speeches were greatly admired. Well wishers in London gave him money to legally purchase his freedom.
Who was a former slave that spoke out against slavery?
Frederick Douglass e2020
