There is one Resolution I will not omit. Resolved that no Slaves be imported into any of the thirteen colonies.


Autobiography (1802–1807), passage on events of April 6, 1776, The Founding Fathers: John Adams: A Biography in his own Words (1973), by James Bishop Peabody, Newsweek, New York, p. 197

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There is one Resolution I will not omit. Resolved that no Slaves be imported into any of the thirteen colonies.

There is one Resolution I will not omit. Resolved that no Slaves be imported into any of the thirteen colonies.

There is one Resolution I will not omit. Resolved that no Slaves be imported into any of the thirteen colonies.

There is one Resolution I will not omit. Resolved that no Slaves be imported into any of the thirteen colonies.