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There is one Resolution I will not omit. Resolved that no Slaves be…

Quote byJohn Adams · 1735–1826

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: 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.

English (original)

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

— John Adams

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