TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foner,Eric
TI  - The fiery trial: Abraham Lincoln and American slavery 
SN  - 9780393066180
AV  - E 457.2 .F66 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - W. W. Norton & Co.
KW  - Lincoln, Abraham,
KW  - Enslaved persons
KW  - Emancipation
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes chronology of Lincoln, slavery, and emancipation (p. 339-345) and bibliographical references (p. 349-406) and index; "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 -- Epilogue : "Every drop of blood" : the meaning of the war
N2  - 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
ER  -