John Quincy Adams Quotes about Slavery

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Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

John Quincy Adams

Presidential, Slavery, Unions

John Quincy Adams (1969). “The diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845: American diplomacy, and political, social, and intellectual life, from Washington to Polk”

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union. A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now be certainly necessary. The Union might then be reorganized on the fundamental principle of emancipation.

John Quincy Adams

Principles, Fundamentals, Slavery

"John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery: Selections from the Diary". Book by David Waldstreicher and Matthew Mason, 2016.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

John Quincy Adams

Patriotic, Voting, Slavery

"Wise Words and Quotes". Book by Vernon K. McLellan (p.281), 2000.