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Introduction
William Bridges Adams was a prominent British reformer and railroad engineer who Thomas Dorr met in the late 1820s while living in Brooklyn, New York. Adams, the author of numerous political pamphlets, including The Rights of Morality (1832), was a key player in the political reform movement that sought to broaden the suffrage provisions for Britain's growing class of industrial workers. In the early 1830s, Dorr was keenly interested in political reform efforts in Great Britain and on the European continent.