James G. Birney Quotes
The contest is becoming—has become—one, not alone of freedom for the black, but freedom for the white.
As the slavery debate in America became more bitter abolitionists were physically attacked and sometimes killed for their views, 1840 & 1844.
James G. Birney, 1792-1857, Abolitionist & Liberty Party Candidate for President Quoted in D. L. Dumond, The Birney Letters, 1938
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After signing the Emancipation Proclamation:
The organization was one of the first organized to agitate against the slave trade. He had organized many of the intellectual leaders of France to join in this effort.
These lines were quoted by W. E. B. Dubois in his The Souls of Black Folk, 1905
The Quakers were in the forefront of not only the abolition of slavery but of the integration of the races.
Lincoln later changed his mind about Colonization when some Black leaders pointed out that the Blacks had built a large part of America and also survived slavery, it they were given fair opportunity, there was no reason that they would not be able to compete and thrive.
James Gillespie Birney was an abolitionist, politician, and attorney born in Danville, Kentucky. He published an abolitionist weekly publication titled The Philanthropist and twice served as the presidential nominee for the anti-slavery Liberty Party.
