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In 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was a member of the Continental Congress, asking him to consider the rights of women in the new nation. She warned him that women would rebel if they were not treated fairly and equally.
Read the famous letter in which Abigail Adams urged her husband John Adams to \"remember the ladies\" in the new government. She expressed her hopes for women's rights and liberty in the Revolutionary War era.
Read the correspondence between Abigail and John Adams in 1776, when they discussed the role of women in the new nation. Abigail urged John to \"remember the ladies\" in the laws, while John defended the masculine systems of government.
Learn about Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams, the second president of the United States. She wrote the famous letter urging the Founding Fathers to \"remember the ladies\" in the new laws and supported women's education and abolition.
Abigail Adams urges her husband to consider the rights of women in the new American government and warns him of the dangers of tyranny. John Adams replies with humor and defends the masculine systems of law and politics.
Learn about Abigail Adams' famous letter to her husband John in 1776, urging him to \"remember the ladies\" in the new code of laws. Explore her views on women's rights, education, and slavery in the context of the American Revolution.
-- I long to hear that you have declared an independency -- and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
