"What is this but to have the curse of Canaan with a witness on us: to be the servants of servants, the most despicable of God's creation?"
The discontent which led to the American Revolution was many years in the making. But in 1761 Otis gave a particularly fiery speech in which he pronounced "a man's house is his castle." John Adams, who observed the speech, later wrote: "the child independence was then and there born."
James Otis Jr.
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