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On August 27, 1858, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas met on a platform erected near State and Douglas Streets in the second of their seven joint debates. Douglas answer to Lincoln’s “Freeport Question” helped him to win the senatorial race, but was fatal to his presidential prospects two years later.
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Freeport, Illinois · United States
