[Review] The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (Eric Foner) Summarized.

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (Eric Foner) - Amazon USA Store: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0045XRATW?tag=9natree-20 - Amazon Worldwide Store: https://global.buys.trade/The-Fiery-Trial%3A-Abraham-Lincoln-and-American-Slavery-Eric-Foner.html - Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/the-fiery-trial-abraham-lincoln-and-american-slavery/id1645577210?itsct=books_box_link&itscg=30200&ls=1&at=1001l3bAw&ct=9natree - eBay: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=The+Fiery+Trial+Abraham+Lincoln+and+American+Slavery+Eric+Foner+&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5339060787&customid=9natree&toolid=10001&mkevt=1 - Read more: https://english.9natree.com/read/B0045XRATW/ #Lincolnandslavery #EmancipationProclamation #Republicanantislaverypolitics #CivilWarconstitutionalpower #Lincolnracialviews #TheFieryTrial The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery is Eric Foner’s Pulitzer Prize winning historical study of Abraham Lincoln’s changing relationship to slavery from his youth through the Civil War presidency. Rather than presenting Lincoln as either a timeless emancipator or a cautious politician with no moral development, Foner examines the gradual interaction between conviction, party politics, constitutional limits, military necessity, and pressure from enslaved people, abolitionists, Republicans, and Union loyalists. The book is a political and intellectual biography focused on one central question: how did Lincoln think about slavery, race, emancipation, and federal power at different moments in his life? Foner, a leading historian of the Civil War and Reconstruction, situates Lincoln within the broader antislavery movement without turning the book into a general Civil War narrative. Its purpose is to clarify how Lincoln’s views evolved, why that evolution mattered, and how emancipation became a central aim of Union policy.