Abigail Adams
letter writer who ran the farm · Massachusetts, USA · 1744–1818
During the American Revolution she ran the farm and raised the children alone, and wrote more than a thousand letters to her husband John, away at the Continental Congress. She later became wife of the second US president.
Posts
March 31, 1776 · On the new laws to be made after independence
I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.
Letter to her husband John Adams
May 7, 1776 · On receiving her husband's reply
I cannot say that I think you are very generous to the ladies; for, whilst you are proclaiming peace and good-will to men, emancipating all nations, you insist upon retaining an absolute power over wives. But you must remember that arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
A further letter to her husband John Adams
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