Republicans Aiming to Ban Critical Race Theory Incorrectly Cite U.S. History in Bill

But the bill mixed up Frederick Douglass with another Douglas—Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas, who defeated Lincoln in the 1858 Senate race.

The seven debates that took place between Lincoln, the Republican candidate in Illinois, and Douglas, the incumbent senator, became known as the Lincoln-Douglas debates, or the Great Debates of 1858.

During the time of the debates, Frederick Douglass was far from Illinois, living in Rochester, New York where he was working with another abolitionist by the name of John Brown.
 
During his famous debates with Sen. Stephen Douglas, Lincoln explained to the crowd: “I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races … I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be a position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”
 
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