:Or when [[Stephen Douglas]] said in the Lincoln/ Douglas debates, [http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/abraham-lincoln/stephen-a-douglas-speech-debate.htm ''"when I trot him down to lower Egypt"''], Douglas was speaking of the scheduled debate in Cairo, Illinois, just up the river from Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis and Cairo (named after cities in Africa along the Nile) got their names in America in the 19th century because of their heavy black populations. | :Or when [[Stephen Douglas]] said in the Lincoln/ Douglas debates, [http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/abraham-lincoln/stephen-a-douglas-speech-debate.htm ''"when I trot him down to lower Egypt"''], Douglas was speaking of the scheduled debate in Cairo, Illinois, just up the river from Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis and Cairo (named after cities in Africa along the Nile) got their names in America in the 19th century because of their heavy black populations. |