I Wish I’d Said That.

Dr. Boli’s Occasional Journal of Quotations.



Abigail Adams on Slavery.

I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in the province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me---to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have. You know my mind upon this subject.

——Abigail Adams, Letter to John Adams, September 24, 1774.