{"id":33438,"date":"2013-04-30T21:33:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T03:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/30\/book-review-the-fiery-trial-by-eric-foner-2011.html"},"modified":"2013-05-01T07:38:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T13:38:20","slug":"book-review-the-fiery-trial-by-eric-foner-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/30\/book-review-the-fiery-trial-by-eric-foner-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: "The Fiery Trial" by Eric Foner (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"
A great history book looking at Abraham Lincoln's life and career through the prism of his attitudes and actions on slavery. 4\/5 stars (I liked it).<\/div>\n

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a review of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery<\/a>
\n This is a fine, deeply interesting book about Abraham Lincoln’s thoughts, writings, speeches, and actions on the subject of slavery and, by extension, the role of the black population in the United St…\n <\/p>\n

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A great history book looking at Abraham Lincoln's life and career through the prism of his attitudes and actions on slavery. 4\/5 stars (I liked it). a review of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery This is a fine, deeply interesting book about Abraham Lincoln’s thoughts, writings, speeches, and actions on the subject … Continue reading “Book Review: "The Fiery Trial" by Eric Foner (2011)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,36,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-books","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128190,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/30\/some-slavery-myths-discussed-and-debunked.html","url_meta":{"origin":33438,"position":0},"title":"Some slavery myths discussed and debunked","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 30-Sep-15 7:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"Posted mainly as a future reference for when these arguments come up again (as they always seem to when people discuss this particularly foul chapter in American history). 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