[PDF.33sl] John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery: Selections from the Diary

John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery: Selections from the Diary

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 | #838166 in Books |  imusti |  2016-12-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.50 x1.30 x9.40l,.0 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

 | Oxford University Press USA

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| John Quincy Adams and the enduring battle against slavery.|By Ronald H. Clark|There certainly appears currently to be a serious rebirth of interest in the life and career of J.Q. Adams (1767-1848). Fred Kaplan's recent bio, and several more just now coming out, is one indication of this renewed focus on JQA. This interesting and well-edited collection of excerpts from the diar| ||The diary should help [readers] understand [Adams's] conflicting commitment to the nation his father helped create and its Constitution, in which slavery was embedded... Adams's argument is often visible in the illuminating diary entries [the authors] provide

In the final years of his political career, President John Quincy Adams was well known for his objections to slavery, with rival Henry Wise going so far as to label him "the acutest, the astutest, the archest enemy of southern slavery that ever existed." As a young statesman, however, he supported slavery. How did the man who in 1795 told a British cabinet officer not to speak to him of "the Virginians, the Southern people, the democrats," whom he considered "in no othe...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery: Selections from the Diary   |  David Waldstreicher, Matthew Mason. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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