| LC control no. | n 50011197 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Birney, James Gillespie, 1792-1857 |
| Variant(s) | American, 1792-1857 Birney, Jas. G. (James Gillespie), 1792-1857 |
| Biography/History note | Individual was an abolitionist. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1792-02-04 |
| Death date | 1857-11-25 |
| Place of birth | Danville (Ky.) |
| Place of death | Perth Amboy (N.J.) |
| Field of activity | Antislavery movements |
| Affiliation | Transylvania University Princeton University American Colonization Society Kentucky Colonization Society Kentucky Anti-Slavery Society |
| Profession or occupation | Editors Lawyers |
| Found in | His James G. Birney ... 1969. The American churches, the bulwarks of American slavery, 1843: t.p. (an American) Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass, accessed April 25, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Birney, James Gillespie; lawyer, magazine and journal editor / publisher, presidential candidate; born 04 February 1792 in Danville, Kentucky, United States; attended Transylvania University in nearby Lexington, Kentucky, and eventually graduated from Princeton University (1810); after admittance to the bar, he returned to Danville to practice law; by 1832 he was an active agent for the American Colonization Society; rose to the level of vice president in the Kentucky Colonization Society; freed his remaining slaves and resigned his vice presidency with the Kentucky Colonization Society (1834); helped form the Kentucky Anti-Slavery Society and began to travel across the nation in support of immediate abolitionism; moved to New Richmond, Ohio, to edit a new journal entitled the Philanthropist (1836); became the executive secretary of the American Anti-Slavery Society (1837); an antislavery convention comprising delegates from six states nominated him for the office of president of the United States; died 25 November 1857 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, United States) Letter on colonization, 1838: cover (James G. Birney, Esq., late vice-president of the Kentucky Colonization Society) page 3 (native of Kentucky; lived for 15 years in Alabama; on his return to Kentucky, elected first Vice President of the State Colonization Society; appointed permanent agent of the American Colonization society for Tennessee, alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas) page 4 (... Jas. C. Birney's) |
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