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 Two
On the 28th, Adams noticed another advertisement for Allen and her children, and he made the fateful decision to go investigate himself....
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JQA: Pondering His Next Move
The events of February had greatly impacted Adams, and his diary indicated a more international frame of reference, with Great Britain’s...
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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 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 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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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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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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