didn't he want slavery everywhere?
Stephen Douglas supported popular sovereignty, which allowed territories to decide whether to allow slavery. He believed in letting each territory make its own choice on the issue of slavery, rather than imposing a federal decision. Overall, his position on slavery was complex and evolved over time, leading to criticism from both pro and anti-slavery groups.
Stephen Douglas believed that the issue of slavery should be determined by popular sovereignty, allowing individual states and territories to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery. He supported the idea that each state should have the right to choose whether to be a free or slave state.
Stephen Douglas supported popular sovereignity, also called squatter sovereignity, which stated that each territory had the right to determine if they would accept slavery or not.
Frederick Douglass felt that the biggest issue with regard to slavery was that it was morally indefensible. He believed that no one should be owned by another man, so slavery was fundamentally flawed.
By 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 This is an outdated and wrong idea.
i think its fredrick douglass
i think he lost because Lincoln had more clot than Douglass and because Douglass was for slavery and Lincoln was not
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, promoted by Stephen Douglass.
Fredrick Douglass i think
Popular sovereigntysee Wikipedia article on Stephen A. Douglass for more information.
He wanted to tell about his life and what he went though.
There is not much known about the childhood of Stephen A. Douglass. He was born to Stephen Arnold Douglass and Sarah Fisk in 1847. He was well educated and taught school for some time.
because yes. figure it out your not low
Jacobs' descriptions of slavery's abuses was he was all for it. Douglass however was not into the slavery abuse.
Stephen Douglas supported popular sovereignty, which allowed territories to decide whether to allow slavery. He believed in letting each territory make its own choice on the issue of slavery, rather than imposing a federal decision. Overall, his position on slavery was complex and evolved over time, leading to criticism from both pro and anti-slavery groups.
Yes he was born into slavery.
Stephen Douglas was not an abolitionist. He was a prominent politician known for his support of popular sovereignty, which allowed territories to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery, rather than actively opposing it. In contrast, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and William Lloyd Garrison were all staunch advocates for the abolition of slavery.