The fiery trial
Subtitle: Abraham Lincoln and American slavery
By: Eric Foner
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780393066180
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "I am naturally anti-slavery" : young Abraham Lincoln and slavery; title: "Always a whig" : slavery, the law, and the second party system; title: "The monstrous injustice" : becoming a republican; title: "A house divided" : slavery and race in the late 1850s; title: "The only substantial difference":; title: Secession and Civil War; title: "I must have Kentucky" : the border strategy; title: "Forever free" : the coming of emancipation; title: "A new birth of freedom" : securing emancipation; title: "A fitting, and necessary conclusion" : abolition, reelection, and the challenge of reconstruction.