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Smoke, Coffee, and Piracy: Adams and the 1786 Barbary Negotiations
On a brisk day in February of 1786, John Adams stepped into the home of Sidi Haji Abdrahaman, the envoy from the Barbary State of Tripoli. Adams spent much of his political and diplomatic career being taken as a nobody, described by his former friend turned political enemy Jonathan Sewall as having, “none of the […]