Birney, James Gillespie [1792 - 1857] - Subject. Fladeland, Betty

JAMES GILLESPIE BIRNEY: Slaveholder to Abolitionist

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1955. 1st edition. ASSOCIATION copy, INSCRIBED to Majorie Birney Bamey, SIGNED by Elizabeth A. & Robert Birney Bamey. Blue cloth binding with silver stamping. Issued without jacket. ix, [3], 323, [1 (blank) pp (including Index). Frontispiece. 8vo. Average wear. A VG copy. Birney "was an American abolitionist, politician, and attorney born in Danville, Kentucky. He changed from being a planter and slave owner to abolitionism, publishing the abolitionist weekly The Philanthropist. He twice served as the presidential nominee for the anti-slavery Liberty Party." The inscription presumed to be from Birney descendants.

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Book number: 50790

Catalogue: Americana