Document: Abigail Adams, letter to her husband John Adams, 1776
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Abigail Adams, letter to her husband John Adams, 1776
Available online at the "Liberty Rhetoric and Nineteenth Century Women" (Prof. Catherine Lavender, College of Staten Island, CUNY)
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Abigail Adams writes to her husband, John Adams, then in the Washington helping to draw up the new Constitution, pleading with him not to place “unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands”.
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