Title: States Slavery Percentages in United States in 1860 Census
Headings: 1860 U.S. Census Percentages  of Slaves and Slavery by State
Introduction
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Content: From protective tariffs to the  expansionist agenda, it illustrates the ways in which the foremost issues of the time influenced relations between the North  and the South. Recommended Reading: Lincoln  and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America (Simon & Schuster) (February 5, 2008) (Hardcover) . Description: In 1858, Abraham Lincoln was known as a successful Illinois lawyer who had achieved some prominence in state politics as a leader in the new Republican Party. Two years later, he was  elected president and was on his way to becoming the greatest chief executive in American history. What carried this one-term  congressman from obscurity to fame was the campaign he mounted for the United States Senate against the country's most formidable  politician, Stephen A. Douglas, in the summer and fall of 1858. Lincoln challenged Douglas  directly in one of his greatest speeches -- "A house divided against itself cannot stand" -- and confronted Douglas on the  questions of slavery and the inviolability of the Union in seven fierce debates. As this  brilliant narrative by the prize-winning Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo dramatizes, Lincoln would emerge a predominant national figure, the leader of his  party, the man who would bear the burden of the national confrontation.