The Boston Womens Memorial, Abigail Adams
"The Boston Women's Memorial celebrates three important contributors to Boston's rich history - Abigail Adams, Lucy Stone, and Phillis Wheatley. Each of these women had progressive ideas that were ahead of her time, was committed to social change, and left a legacy through her writings that had a significant impact on history"
Born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, Abigail Adams was the wife of the second president of the United States, John Adams and the mother of the sixth John Quincy Adams . Her letters establish her as a perceptive social and political commentator and a strong voice for women's advancement.
Excerpt..."and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make 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. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."
-Letter to John Adams, March 31, 1776
The Boston Womens Memorial, Abigail Adams
"The Boston Women's Memorial celebrates three important contributors to Boston's rich history - Abigail Adams, Lucy Stone, and Phillis Wheatley. Each of these women had progressive ideas that were ahead of her time, was committed to social change, and left a legacy through her writings that had a significant impact on history"
Born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, Abigail Adams was the wife of the second president of the United States, John Adams and the mother of the sixth John Quincy Adams . Her letters establish her as a perceptive social and political commentator and a strong voice for women's advancement.
Excerpt..."and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make 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. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."
-Letter to John Adams, March 31, 1776