Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery(English, Paperback, Zarefsky David)

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Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery(English, Paperback, Zarefsky David) is written by Zarefsky David and published by The University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226978761 (ISBN 10) and 9780226978765 (ISBN 13).

Winner of the Speech Communication's Winans-Wichelns Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address. Zarefsky examines the dynamics of the seven 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates, placing them in historical context and explaining the complicated issue of slavery in the territories, their focal point. He elucidates the candidates' arguments, analyzes their rhetorical strategies, and shows how public sentiment is transformed.