Abigail Adams

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Abigail Adams is a prominent figure in early American history. The wife of the second President, John Adams, Abigail was renowned for her intelligence and extensive correspondence. Her letters continue to provide scholars with insight into the political and social life of the Revolutionary era.

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Adams, Abigail - “Remember the Ladies”: A Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams (1776)
Abigail Adams
“Remember the Ladies”: A Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams (1776)

In a letter to John Adams on March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams warned that the new American legislators should not replicate the injustices of the old political order. “Remember the Ladies,” she wrote, urging that women not be placed “in the unlimited power of the Husbands.”