This is a political-historical letter that was sent by Abigail Adams to her husband, John Adams, one of the most influential leaders of the American Revolution and also as one of the Founding Fathers, at Braintree in Massachusetts on 31 March 1776, , to take women’s rights into consideration when drafting new laws.
This letter that was written just a couple of weeks after the withdrawal of the British Forces from Boston in the last days of what was called the Siege of Boston 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
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She was against slavery and believed in the equal rights of all people, including black people and women. She vindicated of married women's property rights, particularly in the field of education.
Abigail had strong opinions on many political issues and she often expressed her thoughts with her husband, giving him the woman's point of view on issues. As letters reflected, they discussed many important problems and often John Adams followed her advice what made that some critics referred to her as ‘Mrs. President’ because her role as unofficial counsellor influenced so much over John what weakened John Adams politically.
In this letter Abigail Adams focuses on the need for laws to protect women and on the character of men. The general ideas in the letter are to challenge the society that surrounded her, the male-dominated world, support the expansion of the female gender role, despite the doctrine of femme couverte and illustrate the important role that women played in the formation of the new American
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March 8 was the last date of any that I have yet had.—You inquire of whether I am making Salt