The fiery trial : Abraham Lincoln and American slavery / Eric Foner.
Eric Foner gives us the history of Lincoln and the end of slavery in America. Foner begins with Lincoln's youth in Indiana and Illinois and follows the trajectory of his career across an increasingly tense and shifting political terrain from Illinois to Washington, D.C. Although "naturally anti-slavery" for as long as he can remember, Lincoln scrupulously holds to the position that the Constitution protects the institution in the original slave states. But the political landscape is transformed in 1854 when the Kansas-Nebraska Act makes the expansion of slavery a national issue. A man of considered words and deliberate actions, Lincoln navigates the dynamic politics deftly, taking measured steps, often along a path forged by abolitionists and radicals in his party. Lincoln rises to leadership in the new Republican Party by calibrating his politics to the broadest possible antislavery coalition. As president of a divided nation and commander in chief at war, displaying a similar compound of pragmatism and principle, Lincoln finally embraces what he calls the Civil War's "fundamental and astounding" result: the immediate, uncompensated abolition of slavery and recognition of blacks as American citizens. Foner's Lincoln emerges as a leader, one whose greatness lies in his capacity for moral and political growth through real engagement with allies and critics alike.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393066180
- ISBN: 0393066185
- Physical Description: xxi, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Co., [2010]
- Copyright: ©2010
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes chronology of Lincoln, slavery, and emancipation (pages 339-345) and bibliographical references (pages 349-406) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- "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.
- Awards Note:
- Pulitzer Prize for history, 2011Bancroft Prize, 2011
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