02174cam a2200385 4500 214835146 TxAuBib 20130123120000.0 100610s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010023425 9780393066180 0393066185 DLC DLC ICrlF TxAuBib Foner, Eric. The fiery trial : Abraham Lincoln and American slavery / Eric Foner. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, 2010. xxi, 426 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-406) and index. "I am naturally anti-slavery" : young Abraham Lincoln and slavery -- "Always a whig" : slavery, 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. Pulitzer Prize, January 2011. Library Journal Starred, August 2010. Publisher's Weekly, August 2010. New York Times, October 2010. Choice, March 2011. Kirkus Review, July 2010. Pulitzer Prize. Library Journal Starred. Publisher's Weekly. Follows the life and career of Abraham Lincoln and the development of his anti-slavery sentiments, discusses his position that the institution was protected by the Constitution in the original slave states, and looks at the measured steps he took after the Kansas-Nebraska Act made the expansion of slavery a national issue. Adult. 20130123. Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865. Slaves Emancipation United States.