John Adams is a stern middle-aged man with gray hair is wearing a dark red suit He is standing behind a table holding a rolled up document in one hand and pointing with the other hand to a large document on the table. Franklin though he was a key founder of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, originally owned slaves whom he later manumitted While serving in the Rhode Island Assembly Stephen Hopkins introduced one of the earliest anti-slavery laws in the colonies and John Jay would try unsuccessfully to abolish slavery as early as 1777 in the State of New York. He nonetheless founded the New York Manumission Society in 1785 for which Hamilton became an officer They and other members of the Society founded the African Free School in New York City to educate the children of free blacks and slaves When Jay was governor of New York in 1798 he helped secure and signed into law an abolition law; fully ending forced labor as of 1827 He freed his own slaves in 1798 Alexander Hamilton opposed slavery as his experiences in life left him very familiar with slavery and its effect on slaves and on slaveholders, although he did negotiate slave transactions for his wife's family the Schuylers. John Adams Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine never owned slaves, Issues Commonwealth of Nations: London, Washington D.C. Business Directory When Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theater in April 1865 thousands flocked into Washington to view the coffin further raising the profile of the city the new president Andrew Johnson wanted to dispel the funereal atmosphere and organized a program of victory parades which revived public hopes for the future.
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