Abigail Adams Letter to John Quincy Adams Soapstone
Words: 966 Pages: 3 5702On the 31st of March in 1776, a woman named Abigail Adams sent a personal letter from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania, where her husband John was working with the Continental Congress to establish the future of the thirteen colonies. In it, she tried to persuade him to consider granting more legal protection and freedom to women. Her letter highlights some fundamental women’s issues from a time when women were considered property of their husbands and rights were not guaranteed to anyone […]