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1. • • “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.
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   Why did Abigail Adams say'remember the ladies'?

   • Of all the words that spilled from Abigail Adams' pen, none are more famous than those of March 31, 1776. With her husband at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia arguing the case for American independence, she implored him to "remember the ladies" in the "new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make. ..."

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   Did Abigail Adams mention women's rights?

   • Women's rights were barely discussed at all. That Abigail tied the subject so eloquently to the American revolutionary struggle gives this letter its tremendous power and significance. Of all the words that spilled from Abigail Adams' pen, none are more famous than those of March 31, 1776.

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   Did Abigal Adams warn John to'remember the ladies'?

   • Equal Franchise Society reproduces extract from famous Abigal Adams letter of March 31, 1776 in which she warns John to “Remember the Ladies.” Rare Book and Special Collections Division. The Library’s collections contain a wide variety of resources related to John and Abigail Adams and his contributions to the nation.

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   Did Abigail Adams ask John Adams to improve women's standing?

   • Abigail Adams asks her husband, John Adams, to consider improving women’s standing while he is drafting the Declaration of Independence. Raphaelle Peale (artist), Abigail Adams, 1804. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Asher B. Durand (artist), John Adams, 1835.

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   ' John and Abigail Adams | Article. Remember the Ladies. Share: Of all the words that spilled from Abigail Adams' pen, none are more famous than those of March 31, 1776.

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   Mar 31, 2016 · Abigail Adams wrote these words to her husband, John Adams, on March 31, 1776, nearly 150 years before the House of Representatives voted to pass the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote. Her words urged him and the other members of the Continental Congress to consider the rights of women while laying the framework for the new ...

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   Remember the Ladies. Share: Of all the words that spilled from Abigail Adams' pen, none are more famous than those of March 31, 1776. With her husband at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia arguing the case for American independence, she implored him to "remember the ladies" in the "new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for ...

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   A R T I C L E S * & * S P E E C H E S. REMEMBER THE LADIES. by Janelle Collett. "Created Equal": The Movement for Women�s Suffrage. All is Fair: Women and the American Civil War. Equality Through Difference. Remembering the Ladies. In 1776, Abigail Adams penned a letter to her husband, congressman John Adams, asking him to please ï ...

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   Letter 3: Abigail Adams to John Adams, 31 March 1776 In this excerpt Abigail shifts her focus from human nature and the need to restrain it to women and the need to protect them. In one of her best known quotations, she urges her husband John to “Remember the Ladies,” but we must see this quotation in the context of 1776, not

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   “I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors … Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.” Explanation. These lines come from a letter Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John Adams as he sat at the Continental Congress in 1776.