For the last 17 years of John Quincy Adams life he fought slavery. There was a gag rule that made slavery legal and opposition was practically silenced. Once a year John Quincy Adams went to the senate and spoke against slavery. Every year he pricked the moral conscience of the senate. Every year, 17 times, John Quincy Adams provoked senators to get out of their seats, walk towards other senators, and fight. In the senate, there were actually fist fights over the morality of slavery.

He believed that the principles of freedom were so sacred that no propriety should stand in the way of denouncing the criminality of slavery. have you every noticed how every generation quickly notices the faults and screwy beliefs of the past generation, but is equally hasty to accept the new beliefs of their generation? From a withdrawn perspective, it is clear that slavery is a detestable practice, but you have to ask yourself, what sinful practice are we openly accepting without even knowing it.