...Revolution, could write: "I always consider the settlement of America as the opening of a grand scheme and design in Providence for the illumination of the...of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth." 44 At the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries Americans had wavered about claiming...

...Revolution, could write: "I always consider the settlement of America as the opening of a grand scheme and design in Providence for the illumination of the...emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."44 At the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 1 8th centuries Americans had wavered about...

...contemplated with reverence and wonder, for it represented "the opening of a grand design and scene in Providence for the illumination of the ignorant,...of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth." According to Adams, the firsicomers had been fully conscious of the special destiny Providence had...

...world. As John Quincy Adams's father wrote in 1765, expressing what was already a widespread view, "I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scheme and design of Providence for the illumination and emancipation of the slavish part of mankind...

...is also an attentive reader of Mayhew's sermons, and of countless others like them, when he writes "I always consider, the settlement of America with...of the slavish Part of Mankind all over the Earth." Some have stressed the conscious art in statements like this one, but there is no chance of understanding...

...systems." He believed that the very settlement of the New World represented a challenge to oppression. "I always consider the settlement of America with...of the slavish Part of Mankind all over the Earth," wrote Adams in one of the drafts of his "Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law."4 This statement,...

...tolerance merging into the holy commonwealth."72 Thus, John Adams asserts: I have always considered the settlement of America with reverence and wonder,...emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.73 We can find here the latterday secular and civic manifestation of those religious visions...

...with reverence and wonder," wrote John Adams in his A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law, "as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence...emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."83 Hamilton wrote in the first Federalist, "It has been frequently remarked that it seems to...

...be." John Adams wrote in his notes for/4 Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, February of 1765: I always consider the settlement of America with reverence...emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.12 In his diary, Sunday, February 9, 1772, John Adams wrote: "If I would go to Hell for an eternal...

...John Adams had declared, "I always consider the settlement of America as the opening of a grand scheme and design in Providence for the illumination of the...emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."6 A decade after the revolution, Adams was bemoaning their unrelieved impoverishment. But he...