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John Quincy Adams

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John Quincy Adams grew up in Braintree Massachusetts now known as Quincy Massachusetts, as well as accompanying his father President John Adams on diplomatic missions in Europe. Throughout Adam's whole life he never owned a slave. Him nor his father ever had a slave in The White House. They both all their lives only hired white people or free slaves to work for them, but never bought any human as property. Adams found slavery to be immoral and was known well in Congress for passionately advocating for anti-slavery movements. although not technically an abolitionist he still felt passionately about ending slavery. John Quincy Adams fought for universal rights. "that these public lands were among the chosen instruments of Almighty power, not only of promoting the virtue, welfare, and happiness of millions upon millions of individuals and families of the human race, but of improving the condition of man, by establishing the practical, self-evident truth of the natural equality of...