This is a letter that was sent by Abigail Adams to her husband, John Adams, one of the most influential leaders of the American Revolution, at Braintree in Massachusetts on 31 March 1776, to take women’s rights into consideration when drafting new laws.
This letter is part of the collection of missives more than 1,100 that John and Abigail exchanged during his nearly fifty years of married life and have a great historic important role. In them, the dreams of youth's ambitious lawyer, complaints of abandonment of his wife Abigail during the years when her husband was sent to Europe to strengthen the independence of the thirteen American colonies and political issues are recounted.
During most of American history, the status of the colonial
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During that time, Abigail met Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, whose political opposition to her husband hurt her. Later, they moved to London, where John served as American minister to Great Britain and Abigail as the wife of a diplomat met the King of England.
In 1788 they returned to America and John was elected as Vice-President under President George Washington. After serving as the first Vice President John Adams was elected President of the United States, 1797-1801, and Abigail became the First Lady to reside at the White House, or President's House as it was then known. In 1800, after John's reelection defeat, the family retired to Quincy and had a happy retirement.
Abigail Adams died in 1818 and was buried in a crypt located in the United First Parish Church, also known as the Church of the Presidents in Quincy, Massachusetts without seeing her son, John Quincy Adams, become
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She also warns that if women will have no ‘voice, or Representation’ within the new government, they probably started a revolution because they want to be heard, as we can see in ‘If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or