...foreshadowed Paine. This is well illustrated, for instance, by John Adams's diary entry of February 1765: 'I always consider the settlement of America with...of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth' (Donoghue 1988: 229). America from this perspective had a special purpose in the world, one that was...

...grievances against Britain, solemnly assuring his fellow colonists that the "settlement of America" was "the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence...of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth." The colonists' complaints against British treatment of them as "slaves" were part of this righteous...

...the United States, direct the world to the same end. In a diary entry for February 1765, Adams wrote, "I always consider the settlement of America with...emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."6 Franklin and Jefferson preferred the image of Israel's exodus from Egypt and eventual arrival...

...seriously indeed. They tended to look back to the seventeenth-century settlements, in John Adams's words, "as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence...emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."3 In such Revolutionary sentiments lay the sources for the emerging notion of America as an...

...figures as Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. The latter proclaimed the founding of the colonies to be "the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence...emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."14 Politicians in the United States frequently invoke the language of altruism and uplift to...

...explained why Adams viewed the next step "with Reverence and Wonder." The settlement of America opened "a grand scene and Design in Providence, for the Illumination...Emancipation of the slavish Part of Mankind all over the Earth."9 The same certainty breathed through the histories, though smothered by clumsily bunched heaps...

...Lincoln, and others): "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."39 It is important to underline such a powerful stream of thought as this, and its embodiment...

...the rhetoric is predominantly biblical. "^ So konnte John Adams noch 1765 mit Überzeugung schreiben: "I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scence and design in Providence for the illumination of the ignorant, the emancipation of the slavish...

...Jersusalem in North America. Adams, however, was expecting a social millennium, not a religious one: I always consider the settlement of America with reverence...of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. He was a leader in opposition to the hated Stamp Act, and in August, 1765, published serially in the...

...characterized as having a special place in God's unfolding plan for mankind. In the words of John Adams: "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...