Spring comes and goes very quickly in New England. The most delicate season. Remarkably the Adams house and visitor’s center are not open yet. Some of my more colorful ancestors; opposed to slavery very early on, predicted the then far off Civil War over slavery. Kept an extensive journal which has permitted us to know what he was thinking. His library was nearly 14,000 books.
John Quincy Adams defended the slaves of the “Amistad”.