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Author : John Quincy Adams
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, when in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Quincy Adams
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500688165
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams written by John Quincy Adams and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Quincy Adams was born in Frederick County, Virginia in 1845 to slave parents belonging to the prominent Calomese family. Adams and his twin brother were one of four sets born to their mother, who had twenty-five children. Adams' book Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams (1872) was published while he lived in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Much of Adams' narrative contrasts slave and free life, using anecdotes and biblical principles to illustrate the differences. One memorable heartbreaking moment that Adams uses to highlight the evils of slavery occurred in 1857, when his twin brother and another sister were sold away from the family. Fortunately, the family was reunited with John's twin, Aaron, through correspondence, and they met again after the Civil War. Following his narrative, Adams includes excerpts from the United States Constitution, as well as letters of personal recommendation.
Author : John Quincy Adams
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781522988823
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams written by John Quincy Adams and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every book has its preface--a book without a preface would be like a city without a directory, or an animal with only part of the organs necessary to its existence. To the friends of progress and elevation I propose to write a narrative of real life as a slave and as a citizen. Believing that every person, who regards those that are striving to educate themselves, will give this little book some encouragement when its author presents it to them, and believing that every gentleman and lady will do so, I feel satisfied to submit the following facts of my life when in slavery and now as a freeman.
Author : John Quincy Adams, Former
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020975851
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Narrative Of The Life Of John Quincy Adams, When In Slavery, And Now As A Freeman written by John Quincy Adams, Former and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this autobiography, John Quincy Adams chronicles his life as a slave and his journey to freedom. Adams offers a firsthand account of the horrors of slavery, as well as his struggles to obtain an education and secure his release from bondage. A powerful and moving work that sheds light on an important chapter in American history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : John Quincy Adams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199947953
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery written by John Quincy Adams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 other light than as Americans," come to foretell "a grand struggle between slavery and freedom"? How could a committed expansionist, who would rather abandon his party and lose his U.S. Senate seat than attack Jeffersonian slave power, later come to declare the Mexican War the "apoplexy of the Constitution," a hijacking of the republic by slaveholders? What changed? Entries from Adams's personal diary, more extensive than that of any American statesman, reveal a highly dynamic and accomplished politician in engagement with one of his generation's most challenging national dilemmas. Expertly edited by David Waldstreicher and Matthew Mason, John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery offers an unusual perspective on the dramatic and shifting politics of slavery in the early republic, as it moved from the margins to the center of public life and from the shadows to the substance of Adams's politics. The editors provide a lucid introduction to the collection as a whole and frame the individual documents with brief and engaging insights, rendering both Adams's life and the controversies over slavery into a mutually illuminating narrative. By juxtaposing Adams's personal reflections on slavery with what he said-and did not say-publicly on the issue, the editors offer a nuanced portrait of how he interacted with prevailing ideologies during his consequential career and life. John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the complicated politics of slavery that set the groundwork for the Civil War.
Author : Josiah Quincy
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Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams written by Josiah Quincy and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William L. Andrews
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019983122X
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Slave Narratives after Slavery written by William L. Andrews and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pre-Civil War autobiographies of famous fugitives such as Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs form the bedrock of the African American narrative tradition. After emancipation arrived in 1865, former slaves continued to write about their experience of enslavement and their upward struggle to realize the promise of freedom and citizenship. Slave Narratives After Slavery reprints five of the most important and revealing first-person narratives of slavery and freedom published after 1865. Elizabeth Keckley's controversial Behind the Scenes (1868) introduced white America to the industry and progressive outlook of an emerging black middle class. The little-known Narrative of the life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman (1872) gave eloquent voice to the African American working class as it migrated from the South to the North in search of opportunity. William Wells Brown's My Southern Home (1880) retooled the image of slavery delineated in his widely-read antebellum Narrative and offered his reader a first-hand assessment of the South at the close of Reconstruction. Lucy Ann Delaney used From the Darkness Cometh the Light (1891) to pay tribute to her enslaved mother and to exemplify the qualities of mind and spirit that had ensured her own fulfillment in freedom. Louis Hughes's Thirty Years a Slave (1897) spoke for a generation of black Americans who, perceiving the spread of segregation across the South, sought to remind the nation of the horrors of its racial history and of the continued dedication of the once enslaved to dignity, opportunity, and independence.
Author : John Quincy Adams
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598535242
Total Pages : 775 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)
Download or read book John Quincy Adams: Diaries Vol. 2 1821-1848 (LOA #294) written by John Quincy Adams and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the 250th anniversary of John Quincy Adams's birth, a landmark new selected edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait of a man and his times from the Revolution to the coming of the Civil War. The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary works in American literature. Begun in 1779 at the age of twelve and kept more or less faithfully until his death almost 70 years later, and totaling some fifteen thousand closely-written manuscript pages, it is both an unrivaled record of historical events and personalities from the nation's founding to the antebellum era and a masterpiece of American self-portraiture, tracing the spiritual, literary, and scientific interests of an exceptionally lively mind. Now, for the 250th anniversary of Adams's birth, Library of America and historian David Waldstreicher present a two-volume reader's edition of diary selections based for the first time on the original manuscripts, restoring personal and revealing passages suppressed in earlier editions. Volume 2 opens with Adams serving as Secretary of State, amid political maneuverings within and outside James Monroe's cabinet to become his successor, a process that culminates in Adams's election to the presidency by the House of Representatives after the deadlocked four-way contest of 1824. Even as Adams takes the oath of office, rivals Henry Clay, his Secretary of State, John C. Calhoun, his vice president, and an embittered Andrew Jackson, eye the election of 1828. The diary records in candid detail his frustration as his far-sighted agenda for national improvement founders on the rocks of internecine political factionalism, conflict that results in his becoming only the second president, with his father, to fail to secure reelection. After a short-lived retirement, Adams returns to public service as a Congressman from Massachusetts, and for the last seventeen years of his life he leads efforts to resist the extension of slavery and to end the notorious "gag rule" that stifles debate on the issue in Congress. In 1841 he further burnishes his reputation as a scourge of the Slave Power by successfully defending African mutineers of the slave ship Amistad before the Supreme Court. The diary achieves perhaps its greatest force in its prescient anticipation of the Civil War and Emancipation, an "object," as Adams described it during the Missouri Crisis, "vast in its compass, awful in its prospects, sublime and beautiful in its issue."
Author : John Torrey Morse
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Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by John Torrey Morse and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Traub
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0465028276
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by James Traub and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Adams' diary, letters, and writings, chronicles the diplomat and president's numerous achievements and failures, revealing his unwavering moral convictions, brilliance, unyielding spirit, and political courage.
Author : William Henry Seward
Publisher : Auburn [N.Y.] : Derby, Miller
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United States written by William Henry Seward and published by Auburn [N.Y.] : Derby, Miller. This book was released on 1849 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a biography of John Quincy Adams, United States Senator, Congressman from Massachusetts, and the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829.
Author : John Torrey Morse
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385314097
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by John Torrey Morse and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author : Debbie Levy
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822508250
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (82 download)
Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by Debbie Levy and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and accomplishments of the sixth president of the United States, discussing his policies, anti-slavery view, and life after his presidency.
Author : Ann Denkler
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152756097X
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Writing Freedom into Narratives of Racial Injustice in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley written by Ann Denkler and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far too many towns and cities across the United States continue to deny the history of the interstate trade of enslaved men, women, and children, and are resistant to recognizing sites associated with enslavement. The Shenandoah Valley of Virginia is one of these regions, and its historical texts and public history sites perpetuate the racist belief that enslaved individuals were not a factor in the establishment and history of this region because the census numbers in the antebellum era were ‘low’. In the case of the valley, myriad discourses have created a false story of the non-presence of African Americans that, as it became increasingly replicated, became more and more thought of as the truth. This book refocuses the study of enslavement and African-American history on the narratives of two individuals who were enslaved in the valley region, Bethany Veney and the distinctively named John Quincy Adams, to help build upon the nascent scholarship of valley enslavement and emancipation. By privileging the narratives, it asserts that enslaved individuals were astute, self-conscious historians who knew that they were forging a literary style, but also amending the historical record that had kept them absent. The book advocates the unearthing of a more complete and equitable American past, but also pushes for an interrogation of how and why false mythological pasts have been constructed and examines the legacies these myths have left behind.
Author : T. Stephen Whitman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Antietam 1862 written by T. Stephen Whitman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how the Battle of Antietama conflict that changed nothing militarilystill played a pivotal role in the Civil War by affording Abraham Lincoln an opportunity to announce the emancipation of slaves in states in rebellion. Antietam 1862: Gateway to Emancipation examines the connections between the Maryland Campaign culminating in the battle of Antietam in 1862 and the drive to emancipate slaves to win the war for the Union. The work's thematic chapters discuss how slaves' resistance to the Confederacy and flight to Union armies influenced Union domestic and diplomatic politics, Confederate military strategy, and above all, the leadership of President Lincoln. By focusing on the complex topics of antislavery politics, diplomacy, and slaves' resistance rather than the specific occurrences on the battlefield, this book shows how shrewd Abraham Lincoln was in assessing the consequences of fighting a civil war about slavery. The concept that slaves' resistance played a part in Lee and Davis's decision to cross the Potomac and invade Maryland is explored, as is the idea that this strategy delayed and ultimately dashed all of the Confederacy's hopes of help from the British.
Author : John Torrey Morse (Jr.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by John Torrey Morse (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Pennsylvania State Library: Catalogue of miscellaneous books. 742 p written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
