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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Foner, Eric, 1943- Fiery trial. (DLC) 2010023425 (OCoLC)601096674 |
Named Person: | Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Eric Foner |
ISBN: | 9780393080827 039308082X |
OCLC Number: | 915592597 |
Awards: | Bancroft Prize, 2011. Pulitzer Prize for history, 2011 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
Contents: | "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. |
Responsibility: | Eric Foner. |
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"A well orchestrated examination of Lincoln's changing views of slavery, bringing unforeseeable twists and a fresh sense of improbability to a familiar story." -- The 2011 Pulitzer Prize Committee "Starred Review. Original and compelling....In the vast library on Lincoln, Foner's book stands out as the most sensible and sensitive reading of Lincoln's lifetime involvement with slavery and the most insightful assessment of Lincoln's-and indeed America's-imperative to move toward freedom lest it be lost. An essential work for all Americans." -- Library Journal Read more...


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