I shudder when I think of the calamities which slavery is likely to produce in this country. You would think me mad if I were to describe my anticipations… If the gangrene is not stopped I can see nothing but insurrection of the blacks against the whites.


1820, as quoted in John Adams, by Page Smith, Doubleday, Garden City, New York

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I shudder when I think of the calamities which slavery is likely to produce in this country. You would think me mad if I were to describe my...

I shudder when I think of the calamities which slavery is likely to produce in this country. You would think me mad if I were to describe my...

I shudder when I think of the calamities which slavery is likely to produce in this country. You would think me mad if I were to describe my...

I shudder when I think of the calamities which slavery is likely to produce in this country. You would think me mad if I were to describe my...