TY - BOOK AU - Foner,Eric TI - The fiery trial: Abraham Lincoln and American slavery SN - 9780393066180 (hardcover) AV - E457.2 .F66 2010 U1 - 973.7092 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton KW - Lincoln, Abraham, KW - Slaves KW - Emancipation KW - United States KW - New York Times Notable Book KW - 2010 KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references 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 ER -