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... Birney , who was born in a wealthy slaveholding family at Dansville , Kentucky , in the year 1792. The Bir- neys were anti - slavery planters of the type of Washington and Jefferson . The father had labored to make Kentucky a free State ...
... Birney , who was born in a wealthy slaveholding family at Dansville , Kentucky , in the year 1792. The Bir- neys were anti - slavery planters of the type of Washington and Jefferson . The father had labored to make Kentucky a free State ...
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... Birney at the age of twenty - four was influential as a member of the Kentucky Legis- lature in the prevention of the passing of a joint resolution calling upon Ohio and Indiana to make laws providing for the return of fugitive slaves ...
... Birney at the age of twenty - four was influential as a member of the Kentucky Legis- lature in the prevention of the passing of a joint resolution calling upon Ohio and Indiana to make laws providing for the return of fugitive slaves ...
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... Birney never again supported Clay for office and regarded him as in a large measure re- sponsible for the pro - slavery reaction in Kentucky . Birney , who had now become discouraged re- garding the prospect of emancipation , during the ...
... Birney never again supported Clay for office and regarded him as in a large measure re- sponsible for the pro - slavery reaction in Kentucky . Birney , who had now become discouraged re- garding the prospect of emancipation , during the ...
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... Birney became aware of the aggressive de - ` signs of the planters of the Gulf States to secure new slave territories in the Southwest . In view of these facts the methods of the colonization society appeared utterly futile . Birney ...
... Birney became aware of the aggressive de - ` signs of the planters of the Gulf States to secure new slave territories in the Southwest . In view of these facts the methods of the colonization society appeared utterly futile . Birney ...
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... Birney , who became secretary of the Anti - Slavery Society in 1837 , transferred his residence to New York City . .Twenty - three years before Lincoln's famous utterance in which he proclaimed the doctrine that " " a house divided ...
... Birney , who became secretary of the Anti - Slavery Society in 1837 , transferred his residence to New York City . .Twenty - three years before Lincoln's famous utterance in which he proclaimed the doctrine that " " a house divided ...
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