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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 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 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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