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What did James Gillespie Birney do before he became an abolitionist?

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He practiced law at Danville from 1814 to 1818, before he moved to Alabama, where he served one term in the state legislature. Briefly (1832-34) an agent of the American Colonization Society before becoming an abolitionist ...

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