John Quincy Adams


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 all mankind, as the foundation of human government, and by banishing Slavery and War from the earth. . . . Was all this a Utopian daydream? Is the one talent, entrusted by the Lord of the harvest, for the improvement of the condition of man, to be extinguished by the blasting breath of Slavery?(see John Quincy Adams: Page 188-189 p. 5 and p.1). This text explains that these lands are supposed to create equality and make mankind better but not banishing slavery will not have equality for all. Slavery in Quincy eyes was a moral evil. He believed the right to everyone to be free is a fundamental and universal right. He called slavery "a sin before god”(see understanding prejudice: John Quincy Adams). John Quincy Adams fought for 18 years to get rid of the gag rule which prevented any actions regarding slavery to happen.


One of John Quincy Adams most famous cases was the Amistad case. In 1839 51 Africans were taken from their home in Africa and put on a ship to the United States. On this journey the Africans revolted killing the captain and the cook. They told the rest of the crew they would be allowed to live if they turned the ship around and brought them back to Africa. Although the crew agreed they tricked them and U.S navy off the coast of New York brought them in and charged them with murder. Adams decided to take their case and fight to hopefully bring some justice to them. He believed these men were free men also the slave trade between the United States and other countries was banned so taking these men was illegal. In the end Adams won the majorities vote and these men became free. 



Work Cited

https://secure.understandingprejudice.org/slavery/presinfo.php?president=6



https://aaregistry.org/story/john-quincy-adams-president-abolitionist-and-amistad-councel/

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/john-quincy-adams/533298/


https://www.jstor.org/stable/2716657


https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adams-begins-arguments-in-the-amistad-case


Parsons, Lynn Hudson. John Quincy Adams, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/highpoint-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1351179.
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Parsons, Lynn Hudson. John Quincy Adams, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/highpoint-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1351179.
Created from highpoint-ebooks on 2020-09-15 18:46:03.



https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adams-begins-arguments-in-the-amistad-case



https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/highpoint-ebooks/reader.action?docID=1351179#

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