I, James G. Birney, am most famously known as the most influential American political leader of the anti-slavery movement in its early phases. I was born in Danville, Kentucky to a family of wealth and influence on February 4th, 1792. After graduating from Princeton University, I began a career in law. Immediately after, I moved to Northern Alabama in 1818 and bought a cotton plantation in Huntsville where there was much anti-slavery sentiment at the time. My conscious was increasingly troubled by slavery and in 1826 I began my official anti-slavery work. My strong views of anti-slavery makes it evident to me that slavery is our country’s biggest problem. I became a member of the American Colonization Society (ACS), whose goal was to eliminate
