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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (1970)
America’s Black Past: A Reader in Afro-American History (editor, 1970)
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Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (1976)
Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War (1980)
Nothing but Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy (1983)
Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 (1988)
A Short History of Reconstruction (1990)
A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln (with Olivia Mahoney, 1990)
The New American History (editor, 1990; rev. ed. 1997)
The Reader’s Companion to American History (editor, with John A. Garraty, 1991)
Freedom’s Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders during Reconstruction (editor, 1993; rev. ed. 1996)
Thomas Paine: Collected Writings (editor, 1995)
America’s Reconstruction: People and Politics after the Civil War (with Olivia Mahoney, 1995)
The Story of American Freedom (1998)
Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World (2002)
Give Me Liberty! An American History (2004; rev. eds. 2007, 2010)
Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History (editor, 2004; rev. eds. 2007, 2010)
Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction (2005)
Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy: A Reader (editor, with Manning Marable, 2006)
Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World (editor, 2008)
THE FIERY TRIAL
Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
Eric Foner
W. W. Norton & Company New York London
Copyright © 2010 by Eric Foner
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Foner, Eric.
The fiery trial: Abraham Lincoln and American slavery / Eric Foner.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 978-0-393-08082-7
1. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809–1865—Views on slavery.
2. Slaves—Emancipation—United States. I. Title.
E457.2.F66 2010
973.7092—dc22
2010023425
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Contents
List of Maps and Illustrations
Preface
1
“I Am Naturally Anti-Slavery”: Young Abraham Lincoln and Slavery
2
“Always a Whig”: Lincoln, the Law, and the Second Party System
3
“The Monstrous Injustice”: Becoming a Republican
4
“A House Divided”: Slavery and Race in the Late 1850s
5
“The Only Substantial Difference”: Secession and Civil War
6
“I Must Have Kentucky”: The Border Strategy
7
“Forever Free”: The Coming of Emancipation
8
“A New Birth of Freedom”: Securing Emancipation
9
“A Fitting, and Necessary Conclusion”: Abolition, Reelection, and the Challenge of Reconstruction
Epilogue
“Every Drop of Blood”: The Meaning of the War
Acknowledgments
Chronology of Lincoln, Slavery, and Emancipation
Abbreviations Used in Notes
Notes
List of Maps and Illustrations
MAPS
The Presidential Election of 1860
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Presidential Election of 1864
ILLUSTRATIONS, between Chapter 6 and Chapter 7
Abraham Lincoln in 1858
Orville H. Browning
Lyman Trumbull
Stephen A. Douglas
Owen Lovejoy
The Railsplitter
An 1860 Campaign Placard
The Dis-United States
Stampede of Slaves from Hampton to Fortress Monroe
Charles Sumner
Wendell Phillips
First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln
Abe Lincoln’s Last Card
Sensation among ‘Our Colored Brethren’
Frederick Douglass
Alexander Crummell
Martin R. Delany
William H. Johnson’s gravestone
The Miscegenation Ball
Negro Volunteers Enrolling in Gen. Grant’s Army Corps
Uncle Abe’s Valentine Sent by Columbia
Lincoln and the Female Slave
Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves…. The fiery trial through which