Birney, James Gillespie 1792-1857

Overview

Works:	125 works in 488 publications in 2 languages and 9,868 library holdings
Genres:	Controversial literature Newspapers Trials, litigation, etc History Sources Periodicals Records and correspondence Biography
Roles:	Author
Classifications:	E449, 973.7114

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Most widely held works about James Gillespie Birney

James Gillespie Birney: slaveholder to abolitionist by Betty Fladeland( Book )
James G. Birney and his times; the genesis of the Republican Party with some account of abolition movements in the South before 1828 by William Birney( )
Apostles of equality : the Birneys, the Republicans, and the Civil War by D. Laurence Rogers( )
Sketches of the life and writings of James Gillespie Birney by Beriah Green( Book )
... Letters of James Gillespie Birney, 1831-1857 by James Gillespie Birney( Book )

Sketch of the life of James G. Birney by William Birney( )
James G. Birney and his times; the genesis of the Republican Party by William Birney( Book )
The Birney anti-slavery collection of the Johns Hopkins University by Milton S. Eisenhower Library( Book )
Don't throw away your vote( )
Narrative of the late riotous proceedings against the liberty of the press, in Cincinnati : with remarks and historical notices, relating to emancipation : addressed to the people of Ohio by Ohio Anti-slavery Society( Book )
Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice by United Nations( Book )
Who is james G. Birney?( )
The liberty almanac by J. N. T Tucker( Book )
James Gillespie Birney exponent of political action against slavery by Betty Fladeland( )
The Tocsin of liberty( )
A tribute to James G. Birney by James Gillespie Birney( Book )
La esclavitud en Cuba; discurso pronunciado en la tercera Conferencia abolicionista de 1872 by Joaquín María Sanromá( Book )
The negro in Cincinnati, 1802-1841 by Richard W Pih( )
The frauds and forgeries of the Michigan Whigs : in their endeavors to secure the election of Henry Clay, by destroying the good name and character of James G. Birney( Book )
James G. Birney( Visual )

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Most widely held works by James Gillespie Birney

The American churches: the bulwarks of American slavery by James Gillespie Birney( Book )

68 editions published between 1840 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,355 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Writing primarily for a British audience, American abolitionist James Birney argues in this 1842 essay that Protestant churches in the American South are complicit in sustaining slavery. First, they avoid condemning the institution as a whole, and they also allow individual church members to mistreat their slaves without censure. Birney was the son of a wealthy Kentucky slaveowner and at one time owned a large cotton plantation in Alabama. Over the years his views on slavery evolved toward gradual emancipationism and then total abolitionism. Birney published a Cincinnati anti-slavery newspaper, The Philanthropist, and ran twice for U.S. president as a candidate for the Liberty Party, an early forerunner of the Republican Party

Letter on colonization, addressed to the Rev. Thornton J. Mills, Corresponding Secretary of the Kentucky Colonization Society by James Gillespie Birney( )

43 editions published between 1834 and 2015 in English and Undetermined and held by 888 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A letter on the political obligations of abolitionists by James Gillespie Birney( Book )

13 editions published between 1839 and 1970 in English and held by 459 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Examination of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, in the case of Strader, Gorman and Armstrong vs. Christopher Graham, delivered at its December term, 1850 : concluding with an address to the free colored people, advising them to remove to Liberia by James Gillespie Birney( Book )

17 editions published between 1852 and 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 438 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This is a trial in error to the Court of Appeals from the state of Kentucky concerning the constitutionality of slavery after the Restoration

A Collection of valuable documents; being Birney's vindication of abolitionists--Protest of the American A.S. Society--To the people of the United States; or, To such Americans as value their rights--Letter from the executive committee of the N.Y.A.S. Society, to the Exec. Com. of the Ohio A.S.S. at Cincinnati--Outrage upon Southern rights( )

14 editions published between 1836 and 1972 in English and held by 433 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Correspondence, between the Hon. F. H. Elmore, one of the South Carolina delegation in Congress, and James G. Birney, one of the secretaries of the American Anti-Slavery Society by James Gillespie Birney( )

26 editions published between 1838 and 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 356 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Letter to ministers and elders, on the sin of holding slaves, and the duty of immediate emancipation by James Gillespie Birney( )

16 editions published between 1834 and 1963 in English and Undetermined and held by 315 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Letter of William E. Channing to James G. Birney by William Ellery Channing( )

18 editions published between 1836 and 1936 in English and held by 308 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The sinfulness of slaveholding in all circumstances ; tested by reason and Scripture by James Gillespie Birney( )

16 editions published between 1846 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 304 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mr. Birney's second letter To the ministers and elders of the Presbyterian Church in Kentucky by James Gillespie Birney( Book )

22 editions published between 1834 and 1965 in English and Undetermined and held by 285 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Correspondence between James G. Birney, of Kentucky and several individuals of the Society of Friends by James Gillespie Birney( )

13 editions published between 1835 and 1968 in English and Undetermined and held by 280 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Letters, 1831-1857 by James Gillespie Birney( Book )

10 editions published between 1938 and 1966 in English and Undetermined and held by 253 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The philanthropist( )

in English and held by 244 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Correspondence between the Hon. F.H. Elmore and James G. Birney by James Gillespie Birney( Book )

5 editions published between 1838 and 1969 in English and held by 160 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

... Letters of James Gillespie Birney, 1831-1857 by James Gillespie Birney( Book )

9 editions published between 1938 and 1967 in English and held by 51 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mr. Birney's letter to the churches by James Gillespie Birney( Book )

8 editions published in 1834 in English and held by 43 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Anti-slavery collection( )

in English and held by 23 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The anti-slavery collection consists primarily of publications, letters, bills of sale, slave deeds and reports from between 1769 and 1865, although one retrospective account was recorded in 1916. Most of the materials in the collection relate to slavery and support Berea College's open opposition to the institution of slavery. Of particular note in the collection is a letter and separate autograph of Levi Coffin, president of the Underground Railroad in Cincinnati, and letters from James Birney and Thomas Garrett. Also in the collection is an anti-slavery publication of 1856 written by William Goodell, a contemporary of Berea's founder John G. Fee, and Goodell's hand-written extracts from early minutes of the Manumission Society of New York

Birney on Texas by James Gillespie Birney( Book )

3 editions published in 1844 in English and held by 22 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The liberty press( )

in English and held by 19 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The American churches, the bulwarks of American slavery. : By an American by James Gillespie Birney( Book )

2 editions published in 1842 in English and held by 14 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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