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Abigail Adams and “Remember the Ladies”
Advisor: Marjorie Spruill, Professor of History, University of South Carolina.
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How does Abigail Adams&#;s famous appeal to &#;Remember the Ladies&#; reflect the status of women in eighteenth-century America?
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In correspondence with her husband John as he and other leaders were inramning a government for the United States, Abigail Adams (–) argued that the laws of the new nation should recognize women as something more than property and protect them from the arbitrary and unrestrained power men held over them.
Portrait of Abigail Adams,
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The letters of Abigail Adams, –
Find more correspondence at Founders Online from the National Archives.
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Letter, Literary nonfiction.
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Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams was the First Lady of the United States in Her marriage to John Adams thrust her into the spotlight of the American people.
Unlike Martha Washington, Abigail was opinionated and had beliefs against slavery, believed in equal rights for men and women, and thought that everyone deserved an education.
Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams, the second President of the United States. She was an advocate for women’s rights and education and corresponded with her husband on political matters during his presidency. Her famous quote, “Remember the ladies,” urged her husband and other founding fathers to consider women’s rights in the formation of the new nation.
One of Abigail’s and John’s six children was John Quincy Adams, who later became President of the United States.
It is thanks to the over one thousand letters shared between John and Abigail that we have learned so much about what was happening on the front lines during the Revolutionary War.