Today's American Minute — His Lifetime of Public Service

John Quincy Adams: Anti-Slavery Champion, His Lifetime of Public Service, Guided by Bible - American Minute with Bill Federer

Guided by Bible His Lifetime of Public Service John Quincy Adams: Anti-Slavery Champion

John Quincy Adams: Anti-Slavery Champion, His Lifetime of Public Service, Guided by Bible - American Minute with Bill Federer

In Congress, he earned the nicknamed "The Hell-Hound of Slavery" for relentlessly speaking out against slavery. He single-handedly led the fight to lift the Gag Rule which prohibited discussion of slavery on the House floor. As a result, Southern Democrats tried to have him censured in 1837. In 1839, he introduced a constitutional amendment to ban slavery in all new states entering the Union.

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