Samuel Adams Quotes
I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
Adams, Samuel. The Writings of Samuel Adams. Edited by Harry Alonzo Cushing, vol. 4, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908.
Wilberforce was one of the early staunch opponents of slavery.
Brown was executed for trying to steal federal arms and start a slave rebellion. However, to many Americans, his moral judgment was correct. He became a martyr for many abolitionists, and some Northern Civil War songs extolled him and saw his as an early forerunner of a great moral struggle. See Thoreau {633849} as an example. There were many other Americans who were abolitionists and did not approve of either of the method his violent raid or its purpose of arming the slaves as they feared a bloodbath of vengeance.
Samuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams.
