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- The Fiery Trial was published in 2010 by W.W. Norton & Company. The book's title is a quotation from Lincoln's December 1, 1862, Annual Message to Congress (today the State of the Union address), in which he said of the Civil War: "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
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The Fiery Trial was published in 2010 by W.W. Norton & Company. The book's title is a quotation from Lincoln's December 1, 1862, Annual Message to Congress (today the State of the Union address), in which he said of the Civil War: "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
- Eric Foner
- 2010
Jun 1, 2011 · Lincoln reconsidered that strategy only in the middle of 1862, when its inadequacy became apparent to him. At that point, he embraced a more radical, emancipationist war policy, including the enlistment of black men in Union armies.
- Bruce Levine
- 2011
Born in 1809 in the slave state of Kentucky, Lincoln was taken at 7 to live in southwestern Indiana, a region, Foner informs us, that was moderate in its views of slavery but pervaded by...
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery is a nonfiction book by writer Eric Foner. In this book, Foner examines Lincoln's thoughts and attitudes toward slavery from early in his life up to the moment he signed the Emancipation Proclamation and beyond.
Sep 29, 2010 · The title for Eric Foner’s Book The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery is drawn from the closing paragraph of Lincoln’s message to Congress, December 1, 1862: “The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.”
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“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”— Boston Globe , The Fiery Trial, Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, Eric Foner, 9780393340662
From a master historian, the story of Lincoln's—and the nation's—transformation through the crucible of slavery and emancipation. In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives us the definitive history of Lincoln and the end of slavery in America.
