PUBLICATIONS OF THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS

volume lxxvi

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY

Donald R. Friary, President

Daniel R. Coquillette, Vice President

Celeste Walker, Vice President

Robert J. Allison, Vice President

Leslie A. Morris, Recording Secretary

Martha J. McNamara, Corresponding Secretary

William B. Perkins, Treasurer

COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATIONS

Pauline R. Maier, Chair

Robert Anderson

Donald R. Friary

Christopher Jedrey

Conrad Edick Wright

EDITOR OF PUBLICATIONS

John W. Tyler

PORTRAIT OF A PATRIOT

THE MAJOR POLITICAL AND LEGAL PAPERS OF JOSIAH QUINCY JUNIOR

PORTRAIT OF A PATRIOT

The Major Political and Legal Papers of Josiah Quincy Junior

EDITORS

DANIEL R. COQUILLETTE

J. Donald Monan, S.J. University Professor, Boston College Lester Kissel Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

NEIL LONGLEY YORK

Karl G. Maeser Professor of General Education Chair, History Department, Brigham Young University

volume three

The Southern Journal (1773)

boston • 2007

The Colonial Society of Massachusetts

Distributed by the University of Virginia Press

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOR THE QUINCY PAPERS

This series of volumes represents the tireless and invaluable work of our research and administrative assistants: Brandon Bigelow, Kevin Cox, Jane Downing, Natalia Fekula, Michael Hayden, Elizabeth Kamali, Christina Nolan, Nicole Scimone, Brian Sheppard, Susannah Tobin, and Elisa Underwood, with special recognition to the Editorial Assistants to the Boston College Monan Chair, Brendan Farmer and Patricia Tarabelsi, and to Inge Burgess at Harvard. Their intelligence and enthusiasm are visible on every page. Of course, we are deeply in debt to John W. Tyler, Editor of Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts and the Committee of Publications, without whose guidance and support this project would have been impossible. Finally, special thanks are also due to the guardians of the Quincy heritage: the Massachusetts Historical Society with its enormously helpful Librarian, Peter Drummey, and his staff, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Quincy family itself.

frontispiece:

“View of Mulberry, House and Street, 1805” by Thomas Coram. Oil on paper. The plantation house, built by Thomas Broughton c. 1711, can be seen in the background. In the foreground are the plantation’s slave quarters. Quincy had grave reservations about the prevalence of slavery in the South, both for moral reasons and for what he saw as its corrupting influence on Southern landowners. Image courtesy of the Gibbes Museum of Art and the Carolina Art Association.

Copyright © 2007 by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

isbn 978-0-9794662-0-5

Printed from the income of the Sarah Louise Edes Fund

JOSIAH QUINCY JR.

Political and Legal Works

VOLUME THREE

THE SOUTHERN JOURNAL (1773)

CO-EDITORS:

Daniel R. Coquillette

Neil Longley York

volume editor:

Daniel R. Coquillette

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