How Did Abigail Adams Impact On Society

Abigail Adams Abigail Adams helped plant the seeds that would start women and men thinking about women’s rights and roles in a country that had been founded on the ideals of equality and independence. Abigail’s education bothered her and was apparent in her letters. For Abigail to have taken such a strong interest in her education was a brave stance for a woman of her time. A woman born in Adams’s time had few choices in deciding the direction her life would take. She received little formal education, just enough to manage her duties as a housewife, but was encouraged to pursue what were considered more feminine pastimes, such as sewing, music, letter, writing, and hosting. Adams recognized the limited role women were allowed to play in the world. However, she insisted
She believed that women deserved the opportunities and right including education and legal and political rights that would enable them to live to her fullest capacity within the domestic sphere. Abigail was the wife of John Adams. During their long periods of separation, Abigail and John kept in close contact with letters. Abigail thought of John as her best friend and companion. Abigail addressed her letters to John, “My Dearest Friend,” as if they were only friends. Abigail made her strongest appeal for women’s rights in 1776. Adams wrote to her husband John begging him to remember that women also needed to be given the right to independence: “I long to hear that you have declared an independency – and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire that you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your