Update
The Oxford Biblical Studies Online and Oxford Islamic Studies Online have retired. Content you previously purchased on Oxford Biblical Studies Online or Oxford Islamic Studies Online has now moved to Oxford Reference, Oxford Handbooks Online, Oxford Scholarship Online, or What Everyone Needs to Know®. For information on how to continue to view articles visit the subscriber services page.
Dismiss

Related Content

Related Overviews

Liberty Party

American Anti-Slavery Society

Liberia

James Knox Polk (1795—1849) American Democratic statesman

See all related overviews in Oxford Reference »

 

More Like This

Show all results sharing these subjects:

  • History
  • Regional and National History

GO

Show Summary Details

Overview

James Gillespie Birney

(1792—1857)


Quick Reference

(b. 4 February 1792; d. 25 November 1857), abolitionist and two-time presidential candidate for the Liberty Party.

James Gillespie Birney was born in Danville, Kentucky, to a slaveholding family. He ...

Subjects: History — Regional and National History

Related content in Oxford Reference

Reference entries
Birney, James Gillespie (b. 4 February 1792)
in Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619–1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass Length: 966 words

View all related items in Oxford Reference »

Search for: 'James Gillespie Birney' in Oxford Reference »