The fiery trial : Abraham Lincoln and American slavery / Eric Foner.
Foner, Eric, 1943-
2010
E457.2 .F66 2010 (Mapit)
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Title The fiery trial : Abraham Lincoln and American slavery / Eric Foner.
Author Foner, Eric, 1943-
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780393066180
0393066185
Publication Details New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2010.
Language English
Description xxi, 426 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number E457.2 .F66 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.7092
Summary In a landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Foner gives us a life of Lincoln as it intertwined with slavery, the defining issue of the time and the tragic hallmark of American history. The author demonstrates how Lincoln navigated a dynamic political landscape deftly, moving in measured steps, often on a path forged by abolitionists and radicals in his party, and that Lincoln's greatness lay in his capacity for moral and political growth.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Awards Pulitzer Prize, 2011.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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"I am naturally anti-slavery" : young Abraham Lincoln and slavery
"Always a Whig" : Lincoln, the law, and the second party system
"The monstrous injustice" : becoming a republican
"A house divided" : slavery and race in the late 1850s
"The only substantial difference" : secession and Civil War
"I must have Kentucky" : the border strategy
"Forever free" : the coming of emancipation
"A new birth of freedom" : securing emancipation
"A fitting, and necessary conclusion" : abolition, reelection, and the challenge of reconstruction
"Every drop of blood" : the meaning of the war.

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