Leadership, a word associated with bold and recorded act of an individual that made a lasting impact in some shape or form. In times such as trial and new beginning, great leaders emerge which are sometime immortalized by the passing time due to their legacy; however, not all who lead are necessarily bold and can lost in time and the ideology of the day. This is the case of Abigail Adam. Abigail Adam is woman hailed as a hero of feminism due to her personal writing to her famous husband, John Adams. Yet, when came to her actual work as a mother and the First Lady, she isn’t quite hailed as the ideal feminists. Nonetheless, looking across her life the presents of her meek leadership can be seen and it effects manifest in ways that are often …show more content…
Her legacy lives on through her letters and through her husband and son. With her accomplishments, she has demonstrated her ability to be not only as a mother and wife but also as a correspondent, a writer, a teacher, a First Lady and a confidant. As a writer, she provided important information about the political climate and gave John some sage advice. Abigail was ashamed of her letter though. She at one point asked John to destroy her letters due to poor grammar but thankfully he refused (Drive Thru History America: Foundations of Character); it was good to since her contained such gem that define her morales and her level of understanding:
“In her letters to John she wrote, "I wish most sincerely that there was not a slave in the province. It always seemed to me to fight ourselves for what we are robbing the Negroes (African- Americans) of, who have as good a right to freedom as we have." Later Abigail added John and his fellow delegates should "remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than you ancestors" when they enact new codes of law” (NPS).
This is what makes Abigail Adam a feminist heroine in the modern
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She was very much involved in making sure that tutors were brought in to teach her children and would later allow them to be with their father in France. She was very honest with her son particular with John Quincy Adams where she tells him: “How unpardonable would it have been in you, to have been a Blockhead” (National Historical Publications & Records Commission). Although Some of her children did not end up in the best of place, this could be due to the lack of a father figure around to help in rearing the children. Yet, judging from all the odds against Abigail, she manage to take a situation and make the best of