Foner, Eric. <br/><br/>
The fiery trial :  Abraham Lincoln and American slavery / 
Eric Foner. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  W.W. Norton,  2010. 
 - xxi, 426 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>"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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780393066180 (hardcover) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010023425 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Views on slavery.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Slaves--Emancipation--United States.<br/>New York Times Notable Book--2010
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E457.2  / .F66 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973.7092