Liberty Party (United States, 1840) - Wikipedia
WEBThe Liberty Party was an abolitionist political party in the United States before the American Civil War. The party experienced its greatest activity during the 1840s, while remnants persisted as late as 1860. It supported James G. Birney in the presidential elections of 1840 and 1844.
Liberty Party | Abolitionist, Free Soil & Anti-Slavery | Britannica
WEBLiberty Party, U.S. political party (1840–48) created by abolitionists who believed in political action to further antislavery goals. In opposition to William Lloyd Garrison and his followers (who scorned political activity as both futile and sinful in the battle to end slavery), a group of abolitionists met in Warsaw, New York , to organize ...
Liberty Party - Encyclopedia.com
WEBJun 11, 2018 · The Liberty Party emerged in 1839 as an abolitionist political organization in upstate New York. Organized abolitionism was divided along several fault lines, one of which involved the constitutionality of slavery.
Liberty Party - American Abolitionists
WEBApr 4, 2021 · Liberty Party, founded November 13, 1839, Warsaw, New York, abolitionist political party, merged with the Free Soil Party in 1848.
Liberty Party - Introduction — Civil War Encyclopedia
WEBLIBERTY PARTY, founded November 13, 1839, Warsaw, New York, abolitionist political party, merged with the Free Soil Party in 1848.
Liberty Party (United States, 1840) - Wikiwand
WEBThe Liberty Party was an abolitionist political party in the United States before the American Civil War. The party experienced its greatest activity during the 1840s, while remnants persisted as late as 1860. It supported James G. Birney in the presidential elections of 1840 and 1844.
Liberty Party - UMass
WEBDuring the early spring of 1840, the Liberty Party emerged in upstate New York as a third party committed to confronting slavery more directly than the prevailing Whig and Democratic Parties.
Aug. 30, 1843: Liberty Party Convention - Zinn Education Project
WEBAug 30, 2019 · The Liberty Party, with a platform focused on abolition, held its second convention on Aug. 30, 1843 in Buffalo, New York. The party was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause and it broke away from the American Anti-Slavery Society to advocate the view that the Constitution was an anti-slavery document. Frederick Douglass, Henry …
Liberty Party - Civil War Encyclopedia
WEBWe are including in this list all anti-slavery Liberty Party activists and opponents of slavery, whatever their motives, whether humanitarian, or economic and political. Some of these individuals were against slavery in principle, on moral grounds.
Third-Party Reformers - DPLA
WEBThe Liberty Party was formed in 1839 in upstate New York in response to political fractures within the American abolitionist movement, particularly around the interpretation of the US Constitution.
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