The Lincoln-Douglass Debates is a vibrant and inspring dramatization of the 3 actual times that Frederick (not Stephen) Douglass and Abraham Lincoln met in person. The play is introduced, narrated and close by the character of Frederick Douglass, allowing a unique perspective on these events. The play includes the known topics the two mean discussed, language we know they used, and then artfully interspersed era-and style-appropriate dialog to weave these events into a real drama, a play, not just a pageant of speechification. The play celebrates the intensity and resolve of each man, who are commonly at odds with each other, and also makes clear that these monumental "Founding Fathers" were also deeply sad, damaged men, doing the best they could in the face of their own challenge and the calamities facing the nation and their peoples.