The Tyler Tribute is a newspaper in Tyler, Minnesota, USA covering local news, sports, business, jobs, and community events. The newspaper is published once a week on Thursday. The Tribute covers Tyler and the surrounding communities of Lincoln County, Minnesota.
John Adams, on slavery, had written and said relatively little, but he was on the record as critical of the privileged Southern society whose power depended on human bondage.
In 1779, 19 slaves from Portsmouth wrote a petition to the state legislature and asked that it abolish slavery, in recognition of their war contributions and in keeping with the principles of the Revolution. Their petition was not answered then, but New Hampshire later ended slavery.