Letter of James Gillespie Birney, 1839.

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Letter of James Gillespie Birney, 1839.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31743435

Letter from abolitionist leader Birney to S. Silsbee(?) in which Birney gives his opinion on the question whether it was ethical for a missionary to work for a board supported by slaveholders.

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Birney, James Gillespie, 1792-1857

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Biographical Note: James G. Birney was an attorney, an abolitionist writer and publisher. He was born in Kentucky in 1784 to a wealthy, slaveholding family, but he abandoned a successful law practice to become an agent for abolitionism. Birney hoped to accomplish the abolition of slavery through political means and through the publication of books, pamphlets, and newspapers. He was the Liberty Party's unanimous presidential nominee in 1840 and 1844. James G. Birney died in 1853. From...