History of the United States I / Unit 13 USH1 1843 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Liberty Party
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The idea
Garrison rejected the political system as slaveholder-controlled, and others disagreed and created the Liberty Party in eighteen forty to work inside it.
In practice
James G. Birney, born in Kentucky in seventeen ninety-two, as its first presidential candidate.
Where people slip
Birney had been an enslaver who endorsed colonisation, then freed the people he held and demanded immediate abolition instead.
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