Abigail Adams was a determined and intelligent woman, one of history’s most renowned and prolific letter writers, the wife of the second U.S. President, John Adams, and the mother of the sixth President, John Quincy Adams. For nearly a decade during and after the American Revolution, while her husband struggled at home and abroad to establish a new nation, she remained a patriot on the home front, a keen observer and astute chronicler of the events that led to American independence. Her famous correspondence gave her husband a window on the tumultuous events in Boston and Braintree and left a lasting pen-and-parchment record for future generations. In a compelling appeal for women’s rights, she urged her husband to remember the ladies as he and fellow delegates at the Constitutional Congress sought to devise a new code of laws for the young nation. In her children, she sought to instill a commitment to education, family, and public service, and during the American Revolution she inspired her young son with the words that these were the times in which a genius would wish to live.

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