https://t.inks.page/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States Follow any website on Inks inks.page https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States?t=2026-04-06 Slavery in this country, I have seen hanging over it like a black cloud for half a century.

• John Adams (1821), as quoted in Joseph J. Ellis, Passionate Sage (New York: Norton, 1993), p. 138

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