John Adams, in an 1810 letter to Joseph Ward ... in the human Character Negro Slavery. In the West Indies and the Southern States it has the Same Effect. A great Lady has Said She did not believe ...

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.

He ignored the words of his fellow revolutionary John Adams, who said that the Revolution would never be complete until the slaves were free. Jefferson left another racial and moral problem for ...

(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 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 ...

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 ...