Birney anti-slavery collection, 1784-1909.

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Birney anti-slavery collection, 1784-1909.

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The collection consists of the original anti-slavery pamphlets assembled by the American abolitionist, James G. Birney. The original pamphlets which form this collection are filed into 9 record center boxes in call number order to correspond to photocopies of the pamphlets that have been photocopied, cataloged individually, and filed in Rare Books, Special Collections.

11.25 linear ft. (9 record center boxes)

Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library

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Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library

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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...