1840: Liberty Party: James G. Birney The Liberty Party was the political outgrowth of the growing anti-slavery movement. It had been born in 1839, when the movement factionalized into ...

The Liberty Party was formed in upstate New York in 1840 by men who generally rejected the argument that slavery was recognized by the Constitution. One of the members of the new party was Elgin ...

Birney accepted the nomination for president from the Liberty Party in 1840, with a platform that “demand[ed] the absolute and unqualified divorce of the general government from slavery ...

1840: Liberty Party: James G. Birney The Liberty Party was the political outgrowth of the growing anti-slavery movement. It had been born in 1839, when the movement factionalized into ...