John Quincy Adams, Reluctant Abolitionist: Webinar for Speaker Series, February

Name: John Quincy Adams, Reluctant Abolitionist: Webinar for Speaker Series, February
Start: February 20, 2025
End: 2025-02-12

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February 20, 2025 - Thursday - 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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Diplomat, U.S. President, member of Congress, and attorney before the Supreme Court, John Quincy Adams had a unique relationship with slavery. Prickly and curmudgeonly, he danced with abolitionists, but never became one himself. However, Adams did harbor an intense hatred for the arguments of Southern slaveholders, and eventually found himself in the center of one of America’s greatest struggles. Speaker Jeffrey Denman will use diary and narrative accounts of Adams’ battle with slavery, while exploring the many fault lines in American society that led to the Civil War.

About the Author
Jeff Denman is a retired US History and World Geography teacher from the Brookline Public Schools in Brookline, MA, as well as an author and historian. He is the author of seven journal and magazine articles with subjects ranging from the American Revolution to World War II, as well as co-author of Greene and Cornwallis in the Carolinas: The Pivotal Struggle of the American Revolution, 1780-1781. He is the author of his most recently released book, John Quincy Adams, Reluctant Abolitionist (2013). He is currently working on his third book, about the brutal suppression of the Philadelphia Quakers during the American Revolution.

This webinar is a recording of the in-person talk given the previous evening.
Register here for the webinar only, Thursday, February 20th, 7:00 p.m.

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Online

Directions/Transportation/Parking

Street parking along High Street and at the Eastern Avenue free lot.

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Dedham Museum & Archive (Dedham Historical Society)

For more information

https://www.dedhammuseum.org/programs-events/speaker-webinar-series/