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 ...

John and John Quincy Adams were anti-slavery and were the only two presidents out of the first seven who did not own slaves. Their presidencies bookended a critical transitional period in the ...

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.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be ... but also opened the west to slavery, thereby contributing to sectional conflict in the decades ahead. And Jefferson's second term can only ...

(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." ...

John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts. His father, a farmer and deacon, hoped that Adams would enter the clergy, but his Harvard professors thought his propensity ...