Stage 3. Interpersonal relationships. The ideal of "good boy", that is, what pleases others is good.
Kohlberg's findings consolidated the understanding that morality is not innate. However, moral attitudes do not reduce adherence to heteronomic parameters either. As a result of socialization, the stages of moral development occur at different stages for different people. As a result of socialization, there are ethical and legal implications regarding the judgment of others' moral behavior.
It's because Douglass regarded the Civil War as the fight to end slavery, but like many free blacks he urged President Lincoln to emancipate the slaves as a means of insuring that slavery would never again exist in the United States.