jeffdenman59JQA, Louisa Catherine Adams, and SlaveryThe next day, Henry Wise, alluding to Adams’s remarks, reasserted that Congress had no right to abolish slavery in the District of...
jeffdenman59JQA and the Missouri CompromiseThe Missouri crisis pitted Adams against himself, weighing the coexisting factions of his antislavery convictions and his firm commitment...
jeffdenman59JQA and the Louisiana Purchase-Book ExcerptFor such a young man, Adams had greater life experiences than most of his contemporaries. As a boy in Europe, he had observed abject...
jeffdenman59JQA and the Three-Fifths Compromise-Book ExcerptOn November 6, 1804, Adams published his fifth essay in a series entitled Publius Valerius. This title was derived from the man who...