Jeffrey A. Denman

For two sessions, Adams’s main thrust was the actions of the executive branch, although he certainly took slaveholders and the slave...

February 6, 1837 began with Adams presenting two petitions, the first from nine women from Fredericksburg, Virginia, praying not for the...

As the abolition movement increased its petitions to Congress after the suppression of the mailings, an even stickier problem faced Adams...

The British had abolished slavery in 1833 in the West Indies, Canada, Mauritius, and the Cape of Good Hope as part of the Slavery...

His conversation with John C. Calhoun would lead him to some revealing passages in his diary. Calhoun thought it [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...

The Missouri crisis pitted Adams against himself, weighing the coexisting factions of his antislavery convictions and his firm commitment...

His assignments overseas prevented him from being involved in domestic politics for most of the 1810s, but as he became engaged with the...

For such a young man, Adams had greater life experiences than most of his contemporaries. As a boy in Europe, he had observed abject...

On November 6, 1804, Adams published his fifth essay in a series entitled Publius Valerius. This title was derived from the man who...