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Abigail Adams Reminds John Adams to "Remember the Ladies" (with text supports)

In this famous letter, Abigail Adams, already planning for the war's successful conclusion, admonishes her husband John Adams to consider inequality between men and women when developing laws for a newly independent nation.


Source | Abigail Adams, "Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31, 1776," letter, in Adams Family Correspondence, eds. L.H. Butterfield et al. (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963), vol 1: 369-371; from Massachusetts Historical Society, Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive, http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/.
Creator | Abigail Adams
Item Type | Diary/Letter
Cite This document | Abigail Adams, “Abigail Adams Reminds John Adams to "Remember the Ladies" (with text supports),” SHEC: Resources for Teachers, accessed April 18, 2024, https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/720.

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