In the famous Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Abraham Lincoln’s position on slavery was clear: “I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” Douglas’ position was duplicitous – at best.  He owned a plantation in Mississippi and waffled on the ending of slavery by stating he did not care if slavery was voted legal or illegal but that was a decision that would only be decided by white voters.  While he may have been comfortable with his position, people in the North were not and he was burned in effigy across the states that would become the Union in the Civil War.  In 1854, Douglas remarked to a friend, “I could travel from Boston to Chicago by the light of my own effigies.”

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