[GOPJ]

I read them years ago... it wasn't a 'modern' debate with commercials and grandstanding... covering one night. The debates happened over a period of days. If you read the Lincoln Douglas debates it's reading a book... After you read them you'll fall on your knees in gratitude that slavery in this world was essentially stopped by one man. And that man was named Lincoln.

The civil war ended slavery in the United States but Lincoln's ideas ended slavery in the world.

[jeffersondem]

“After you read them you’ll fall on your knees in gratitude that slavery in this world was essentially stopped by one man.”

First, I didn’t realize that slavery in the world has stopped.

Second, I knew that before the War Between the States, many if not most countries had, indeed, ended slavery. Peacefully.

Which leads to a direct question: Do you think Lincoln fought the war to end slavery?