The Fiery Trial Summary

The Fiery Trial is a non-fiction book that takes place during the American Civil War. Eric Foner published this on October 4, 2010. This story is a biography; the story has a prologue talking about Lincoln’s early childhood. It is talking about Lincoln's political life after moving away from Kentucky and then lived in Illinois, and talking about his life as the 16th president of the United States. His role during the civil war and him trying to abolish slavery. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, in Hodgenville, Kentucky. During his childhood, he grew up in a log cabin. Lincoln's parents were Nancy Hanks and Thomas Lincoln. He got the name Abraham from his Grandfather. Lincoln also had an older sister named Sarah and a younger brother named Thomas who died as a baby. At age seven Lincoln turned family moved to southern Indiana. As Lincoln started to get older he got in the habit of reading a lot. In my opinion, I think Lincoln loved to read; he was just obsessed with books. But his father did not
Even though Lincoln grew up in the south he hated how they were being treated. Lincoln believed that everyone deserves to be treated equally no matter how different they are. On chapter 1,page 22 Lincoln Said “I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel.” At first, Lincoln was a Whig he wasn't a southern whig clearly but it was a northern whig but the political party started to change and change over the years. Lincoln decided to become a republican because he shared the same motives with some of them. The republicans main priority was to abolish slavery and to end the Civil War. I noticed in chapter 3, page 86 the Narrator said: “Earlier in his career, Lincoln had described slavery as unjust but never had he referred to it as a 'monstrous