Out of the seven ‘Founding Fathers,’ only John Adams and Samuel Adams didn’t own slaves. Both men were Northerners. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington hailed from Virginia and considered ...

widely respected for his strong opinions on slavery and Indian affairs. On February 21, 1848, John Quincy Adams suffered a fatal stroke in the House chamber. He died two days later.

(Jefferson was far from the only slave owner in the Continental Congress ... indebted for the great measure of independency is Mr. John Adams of Boston," whom he called the "Atlas of Independence." ...

He would later propose to Congress that slavery be prohibited in newly acquired ... As an antidote to his grief, Jefferson joined John Adams and Benjamin Franklin in Paris in 1784 on a commission ...