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Birney, James Gillespie

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Birney, James Gillespie (1792–1857)

US abolitionist, lawyer, and author. The son of rich slaveholders, Birney himself was an abolitionist. He helped to found the Kentucky Anti-Slavery Society in 1835, and he attacked slavery as the co-editor of the Cincinnati Philanthropist. Birney ran for president as the anti-slavery candidate in 1840 and 1844.



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