'I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder.as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the Earth." -John Adams, a fragmentary draft of "A Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law" Such were the sentiments of John Adams, the second president of the United States, written over one hundred fifty years after a brave and ill-supplied group of emigrants attempted to escape religious persecution and excessive taxation in their homeland of England. They settled in a...

'I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder.as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the Earth." -John Adams, a fragmentary draft of "A Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law" Such were the sentiments of John Adams, the second president of the United States, written over one hundred fifty years after a brave and ill-supplied group of emigrants attempted to escape religious persecution and excessive taxation in their homeland of England. They settled in a...