Abigail Adams Rhetorical Analysis

Abigail Adams was an American First Lady as wife of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and was the mother of John Quincy Adams, who became the sixth president. She was self-educated and was able to oversee the household of the family and raise four children on her own. Abigail was the first Lady to live in the White House, she managed her family, their farm, purchased land, and took care of business enterprises. For over four decades she wrote many letters to her husband, her children, her relatives, and friends; this presented her as an avid writer, who was interested in many subjects like literature, history, and political philosophy. Letter writing was not only a form of communication, but through it we were able to comprehend the mode of self- definition that Abigail expressed throughout her presence in the society. Historians identify her as a strong and
Other women in her position expressed similar sentiments through poems, letters, essays, and journals. They were educated, which was a privilege limited only to the upper-class white women and which allowed them to declare their loyalty towards the country in literary forms. Many noble groups of women organized their patriotism calling themselves as Daughters of Liberty. These groups had meetings, public showing of eating only American food and drinking American herbal tea. American women had a valuable and respectable contribution during the Revolution, because they would support their nation and they would fight just as hard as American men for freedom. Not as visible as the last ones, other women showed their strength from their home. They took over all the responsibilities of running the family farm or their business, because the husbands served in a militia or the Continental