Birney, James Gillespie, 1792-1857 (Personal Name)

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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)

Individual was an abolitionist.