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The Legacy of John Quincy Adams
Benjamin Brown French, who had often disagreed with Adams on matters of policy, and had made many caustic comments about him personally...
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JQA and the U.S.Supreme Court Trial of the Amistad Captives
For two sessions, Adams’s main thrust was the actions of the executive branch, although he certainly took slaveholders and the slave...
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JQA: The Dorcas Allen Incident, Part One
On August 23, 1837, John Quincy Adams recorded in his diary something that caught his eye in the National Intelligencer, and his verbatim...
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JQA and the Showdown on the House Floor
Adams stood and noted that he would remain silent until the House acted on one of the resolutions. He restated the facts, and then...
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JQA and the Road to Censure
February 6, 1837 began with Adams presenting two petitions, the first from nine women from Fredericksburg, Virginia, praying not for the...
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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 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 a Conversation with John C. Calhoun
His conversation with John C. Calhoun would lead him to some revealing passages in his diary. Calhoun thought it [Missouri Compromise]...
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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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