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Abigail Adams urges husband to “remember the ladies” In a letter dated March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams writes to her husband, John Adams, urging him and the other members of the Continental...
Abigail Adams frequently wrote to her husband John Adams, discussing on paper the happenings of the Revolutionary War, her life on the homefront, and political ideas. This letter contains one of her most well-known phrases "Remember the Ladies," and she wrote about considerations of liberty and hopes for women to be recognized by law in the new ...
Adams, "Remember the Ladies" (1776) Reproduced from the Original Electronic Text at the Massachusetts Historical Society. A reproduction of the handwritten letter is available here. Abigail Adams to John Adams. Braintree March 31 1776.
As examples of increased assertiveness among women of the Revolutionary era, how were Stratford, Connecticut’s petticoat army and Abigail Adams’s belief that the Continental Congress should “remember the ladies” similar and different? What factors seem most likely to have contributed to this increased assertiveness?
While Abigail did not seek a public forum to express her views, she admired women who did. For many years she was close to Mercy Otis Warren, the sister and wife of prominent revolutionary...
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Hailed for her now-famous admonition that the Founding Fathers “remember the ladies” in their new laws, Abigail Adams was not only an early advocate for women’s rights, she was a vital confidant and advisor to her husband John Adams, the nation’s second president.
“Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors,” wrote Abigail Adams (1744–1818) to her husband John in 1776, as he and other colonial leaders were meeting in Philadelphia in the Second Continental Congress.
