| Edition |
3rd American ed. / revised by the author. |
| Description |
1 online resource (47 pages). |
| Series |
Abolitionism in the United States anthology |
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Abolitionism in the United States anthology.
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BiblioBoard Core module.
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| Note |
Cover title. |
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Reprint of the third American edition, which was published at Newburyport, Mass., in 1842. |
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Original document: Book. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Slavery -- United States.
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Slavery and the church.
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