JQA, Louisa Catherine Adams, and Slavery
The next day, Henry Wise, alluding to Adams’s remarks, reasserted that Congress had no right to abolish slavery in the District of...
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JQA and the Debate Over Slavery Petitions
Those days in Congress in December brought to the fore two very important constitutional questions that needed resolution before a crisis...
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JQA and the Gag Rule-The Beginnings
As the abolition movement increased its petitions to Congress after the suppression of the mailings, an even stickier problem faced Adams...
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JQA and Britain's Abolition of Slavery
The British had abolished slavery in 1833 in the West Indies, Canada, Mauritius, and the Cape of Good Hope as part of the Slavery...
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JQA and the Legacy of the Missouri Compromise
The new year just brought more angst to Adams. The Missouri question engulfed Adams to such an extent that he found “his ideas connected...
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JQA and the Missouri Compromise
The Missouri crisis pitted Adams against himself, weighing the coexisting factions of his antislavery convictions and his firm commitment...
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JQA and His Conflicts with the Institution of Slavery
His assignments overseas prevented him from being involved in domestic politics for most of the 1810s, but as he became engaged with the...
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JQA and the Louisiana Purchase-Book Excerpt
For such a young man, Adams had greater life experiences than most of his contemporaries. As a boy in Europe, he had observed abject...
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JQA and the Three-Fifths Compromise-Book Excerpt
On November 6, 1804, Adams published his fifth essay in a series entitled Publius Valerius. This title was derived from the man who...
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JQA and Slave Insurrections-1800-Book Excerpt
While in Europe, Adams served as Minister to Prussia from 1797 to 1801. But Adams was concerned about what was happening in several...
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JQA in Europe-1781-Book Excerpt
Over the next several months, I will be blogging excerpts from my book, highlighting some of the more interesting and incredible moments...
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John Quincy Adams-Phi Beta Kappa Society, 1788
"That you may live to enjoy the fruits of a reputation founded upon your extensive usefulness to mankind; and that, after treading...
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John Quincy Adams: His Struggle with Slavery in Antebellum America
I am pleased to announce the publication of my forthcoming book in late 2022 John Quincy Adams: His Struggle with Slavery in Antebellum...
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Relics of the Past
Reading and writing about Greene, Washington and other important folks of the founding era, also made me think of another famous person...
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Greene and Restoration of Civil Government
Of the little known of Greene’s accomplishments in the Southern theatre, his attempt to restore civil government in a war-torn region is...
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Slavery and Greene
History is always messy, even with larger-than-life figures such as Nathanael Greene. As my co-author John and I researched this book, we...
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Greene & Cornwallis in the Carolinas
Sometimes the best stories are those lurking behind the bigger stories. That’s what I found as the genesis of this book took form in my ...
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