The rise of Abraham Lincoln / Ongoing issue of slavery

We started today by watching an excerpt from Ken Burns's documentary, The Civil War. In the chapter, "A House Divided," we heard about ways in which issues surrounding slavery continue to plague the country, from "bleeding Kansas" to the beating of Senator Charles Sumner in the US Capitol to the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Here are a few excerpt from Uncle Tom's Cabin so you can get a sense of the ways in which it expressed the horrors of slavery.

Back in the groups we used for our study of Huck, we read several speeches from Lincoln, including his House Divided Speech and excerpts from his debates with Stephen Douglas.  The worksheet that we used is linked in the Unit 5 tab above (labeled Document Analysis Worksheet) and here.  Just to make sure you remember the difference, between Senator Stephen Douglas and Frederick Douglass, former slave,
here is Stephen Douglas:

and here is Frederick Douglass: