John Quincy Adams
Penn, William (1644–1718) Reference library
The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy
...to England quite a ‘modish person’, according to Samuel Pepys, and entered Lincoln's Inn in 1665 . But the following year, due to the Great Plague, he went to his father's estates in Ireland where, in 1667 , he served with distinction under Lord Arran in the suppression of a mutiny at Carrickfergus. He contemplated a military career but opted instead to pursue his religious commitments, despite the official persecution of nonconformity. Within weeks, he was arrested at a Quaker meeting in Cork. Because of his family's rank (his father was close to both...
Middle Passage Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought
...of such cruelty. Yet a British enslaver, Captain Luke Collingwood, acted similarly when, in September 1781 , he ordered the drowning of 133 slaves not only because they were ill and there was a shortage of fresh water, but because British legal stipulations required insurance companies to cover such losses. Yet it was not with impunity that enslavers imposed death, suffering, and physical and psychological abuse on slaves. The Europeans also testified that captives often employed mutiny and other forms of opposition to their oppression during the Middle...
