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Hace 6 días · The Fiery Trial is not a biography, and the author has succeeded more than most in placing Lincoln in the context of the attitudes of those around him. But paradoxically, this swings back to the pre-eminence of his individual evolution when that context is one of abolitionists and persuasive African-Americans.
Hace 1 día · Eric Foner's book, The Fiery Trial, delves into Abraham Lincoln's evolving perspective on race and slavery throughout his lifetime. Foner has said, “I have never called Lincoln a racist. He shared some of the prejudices of his time.
20 de may. de 2024 · I would also recommend his The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. Another book is Joseph Stiglitz’s The Price of Inequality, which is one of the most lucid and compelling works on the causes and consequences of inequality in the U.S.
Hace 5 días · Emancipation Proclamation, edict issued by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, that freed the slaves of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. Besides lifting the war to the level of a crusade for human freedom, the proclamation allowed the Union to recruit Black soldiers.
Hace 5 días · In God is our trust.” he wrote on the October 5, 1863, “What hard can befall if he is our friend.”. This diary is one of three kept by physician John Bennitt of Centreville, Michigan, describing his experience as a Civil War surgeon for the 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment. Click on the image for a closer look.
Hace 4 días · The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. W. W. Norton & Co. Pulitzer Prize winner. Finkelman, Paul (2010). "Lincoln and Emancipation: Constitutional Theory, Practical Politics, and the Basic Practice of Law". Journal of Supreme Court History. 35 (3): 243–266. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5818.2010.01249.x. S2CID 143921210.
Hace 3 días · The first is the popular-culture view that characterizes President Lincoln as the ‘Great Emancipator’ and attributes the downfall of American slavery to a single event, the Civil War – a perspective recently made in Steven Spielberg’s award-winning film Lincoln (2012).
