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The Liberty Party was a minor political party in the United States in the 1840s. The party was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause. It broke away from the American Anti-Slavery Society due t...
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Due to the Liberty Party's poor showing in both the elections of 1840 and 1844, the organization came to an end. Many former party members joined the Free-Soil Party, which ran its first candidate for the presidency in 1848...
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The Liberty party was the first antislavery party. Formed at a national convention in Albany, New York, in April 1840, the party sought to achieve abolitionist goals through political means. Its first presidential candidate was a former Alabama slave holder, James G. Birney.
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The Liberty Party, 1840-1848; Antislavery Third-Party Politics in the United States ... In early 1840, abolitionists founded the Liberty Party as a political outlet for their antislavery beliefs. A mere eight years later, bolstered by the increasing slavery debate and growing sectional conflict, the party had grown...
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The Liberty Party, founded in New York in 1839, was the first political expression The party had some support in communities in New England and New York where anti-slavery sentiment was strong, but in the presidential elections of 1840 and 1844 it never achieved more than a few percent of the vote even in Massachusetts.
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Both Birney and LeMoyne declined the nominations, but at the 1840 convention in Albany, Birney accepted his nomination as president and offered a new Vice Presidential nomination to Thomas Morris. [1] The Liberty Party was officially formed at this convention even though its roots go back to the 1839 Warsaw convention.
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