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“among the leading slaveholders — and rebels — were Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and James Otis. New England had been the epicenter of the slave trade for decades and it was the region’s leading personality — John Adams — who … ‘resorted to racism in opposing the “Stamp Act of 1765”’” — Gerald Horne, The Counter-Revolution of 1776 (2014), p. 201 #books #history #usa #politics