Character Quote by Samuel Adams
“If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects to the state of tributary slaves.”
“If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects to the state of tributary slaves.”
![“Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive their free[dom] . . . . The Negroes thus bound, are (by their Masters or Mistresses) to be taught to read and write; and to be brought up to some useful occupation, agreeably…” quote by George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ae7/george-washington-257_bounds_upon-the-decease-of-my-wife-it-is-my-wil_3182279.jpg)
