Nationism and John Quincy Adams’ Argument in the Amistad Case, or “Who Speaks for the Nation?”
Law, Culture and the Humanities
Published online on June 21, 2025
Abstract
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Eleven years after he completed his one-term presidency, John Adams argued the slave trade caseAmistad(1841) before the U.S. Supreme Court. A variety of historical judgments have been rendered on his speech, none of which has engaged with the argument’s ...
Eleven years after he completed his one-term presidency, John Adams argued the slave trade caseAmistad(1841) before the U.S. Supreme Court. A variety of historical judgments have been rendered on his speech, none of which has engaged with the argument’s ...