Abigail Adams proved a peerless patriot in the American Revolution with 'a spirit that will not be conquered' while championing rights for women in the new nation.
'These are the times that try men’s souls,' Thomas Paine wrote near the end of the turbulent, fear-filled year of 1776. It was the soul of a woman, however, that defiantly withstood the weight of the trial — the miraculous fight for American independence — with five children at her hip. Abigail Adams never flinched, never wavered. Neither the crown then nor fellow citizens today can mistake her gamble on a bold new nation called the United States.
Adams and Hancock had betrothed themselves to a family steeped in warrior spirit and tradition. 'The origins of the Quincy family lie in Cuincy in northwestern Normandy, France, where a knight named ‘de Cuincy’ joined the 1066 invasion of Britain,' historian Harlow Giles Unger wrote in 'John Quincy Adams,' a biography of Abigail’s oldest son, the sixth U.S. president.
She would have lost everything. Her husband would have been tried for treason, her property confiscated,' said Cain. 'But she was devoted to the cause and knew she had to set an example for her fellow women and fellow patriots. She was tough. She was absolutely tough.' One rebellion not enough The voluminous correspondence of 1,100 letters between Abigail and John Adams provide perhaps the most important primary source of study of the American Revolution.
The Founding Fathers understood that they sat on the cusp of an unprecedented opportunity in history, to remake a more equitable society for mankind. Adams saw the same unprecedented opportunity to remake a more equitable society for womankind. 'I desire you would remember the Ladies,' Adams wrote to her husband in the days before the passage of the Declaration of Independence.
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