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“In the new Code of Laws…I desire you would remember the ladies & be more generous & favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put unlimited power into the hands of the husbands.

…If particular care & attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion & will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”

- Abigail Adams' to John Adams while he argued for American independence, 1776 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/adams-remember-ladies/ #history #HistoryRemix
Portrait of Abigail Adam’s by Benjamin Blyth. Public domain
Abigail Adams’ letter to John Adams. Credit: Massachusetts Historical Society

Remember the Ladies

Of all the words that spilled from Abigail Adams' pen, none are more famous than those of March 31, 1776. 
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