James Birney -1842

In this pamphlet written for a British audience, the author James Birney attempts to show how Protestant churches in the United States helped propagate slavery by refusing to condemn the institution and by allowing church members to mistreat slaves without censure. The son of a wealthy Kentucky slaveowner, Birney advocated the immediate emancipation of slaves and established an anti-slavery newspaper, The Philanthropist, to serve the abolitionist cause. An active member of the American Anti-Slavery Society, he also ran for U.S. president twice as the candidate for the Liberty Party.

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