James Gillespie Birney, Jr.

James Gillespie Birney, Jr.
                                                
Date of birth: Feb. 4, 1792                         
Date of death:  Nov. 25, 1857

Birthplace: Danville, Kentucky
Place of death/burial: Perth Amboy, New Jersey / Williamsburg Cemetery, Groveland, New York

Hometown: Danville, KY

Residence: 1814-1818 Danville, KY; 1818-1832 Alabama; 1832-1835 Danville, KY; 1835-1837 Cincinnati, OH; 1837-1841 New York; 1841-1855; 1855-1857 New York

Life Events: 1816-1818 Kentucky House of Representatives
Married Agatha McDowell, Feb. 1, 1816; Married Elizabeth Potts Fitzhugh, 1840.

Education:  Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky.; College of New Jersey (Princeton University), graduated 1810;\

Employment:  1814-1818, lawyer, Danville, KY; 1818-1832, lawyer, Alabama
 
Gender: male

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Publications:
published The Philanthropist, abolitionist weekly publication, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1836-

A Collection of valuable documents : being Birney's vindication of abolitionists - Birney, James G.

Publication Date: 1836

Correspondence, between the Hon. F. H. Elmore, one of the South Carolina delegation in Congress, and James G. Birney, one of the secretaries of the American anti-slavery society - Birney, James G.

Publication Date: 1838

Examination of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Strader, Gorman and Armstrong vs. Christopher Graham, delivered at its December term, 1850 : concluding with an address to the free colored people, advising them to remo - Birney, James G.

Publication Date: 1852

Letter on colonization, addressed to the Rev. Thornton J. Mills, corresponding secretary of the Kentucky Colonization Society - Birney, James G.

Publication Date: 1834

Letters of James Gillespie Birney, 1831-1857 - Birney, James G.

Publication Date: 1938

Mr. Birney's second letter. To the ministers and elders of the Presbyterian church in Kentucky. - Birney, James G.

Publication Date: 1834

The American churches the bulwarks of American slavery - Birney, James G.

Publication Date: 1885

3rd American edition

Marie Bradby

Marie Bradby

Birthplace: Virginia

Residence: Louisville, KY

Education:  Hampton University

Employment: Staff writer for National Geographic Magazine, Washington, DC;
Reporter for Providence Journal, Providence RI; Lexington Herald, Lexington, KY and Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY

Awards: 
Best Book of 1995 - Book Link, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times  
Best Book of 2002 - Los Angeles Times,

Publications:

"MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE," (Richard Jackson/​Orchard Books, 1995) ALA, IRA Children's Book Award, PBS story time Feature, Teacher's Choice, starred review School Library Journal, Best Book of 1995 by Book Links, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times.

"THE LONGEST WAIT," (Orchard Books, 1998) Kansas State Reading Circle Recommended List.

"MOMMA, WHERE ARE YOU FROM?" (Orchard Books, 2002) Golden Kite Honor Award, Nest Literary Classic.

"ONCE UPON A FARM," (Orchard Books/​Scholastic, 2002) Best Book of 2002 by the Los Angeles Times, Kentucky Public Librarians "Choice Award" Nominee, 2003.

"SOME FRIEND," (Richard Jackson/​Atheneum, 2004) West Virginia Children's Book Award Master List, 2006-2007

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Gender: female

Ethnicity: African American