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ABIGAIL ADAMS. REMEMBER THE LADIES CHRISTIAN ESTEVE ORTS 4874970S, CENTRO TOMÁS Y VALIENTE, VALENCIA

Abigail Adams’ Letters. Remember the Ladies. 1776.

The text is personal letter written by Abigail Adams to her husband John Adams, who was one of the founding father of the Declaration of Independence, and part of the future government of the EEUU, like vice-minister. The text was written in Massachusetts in march 31th 1776, during the American revolutionary War for the independence of the British colonies in America. A second part of the letter was written in 4 April 1776.

The letter is written surrounded in the development of the War of Independence, or American Revolutionary War. In the letter we can see the direct involvement of Abigail Adams in a new nation growth . Colonial women in this moment, were under the British colonial law, and they were considered like part of their husbands properties, the marriage were like one person and that person is the man. So the law thank that a person who is dependent of other, is not necessary as voter, because she will vote what the husband order, and is the same to give a person two votes. She could´t own wage or properties, so the law didn´t care about who can´t be a part of the economic growth, thinking that the lack of responsibilities don´t produce a potential voter. That legal situation produced that women were under their husbands control, and being out of the social development in a newborn country. Nevertheless they were the majority of a revolution that was one of the most important in the industrial revolution, the textile one, and this position gave women a presence and a strength in the new world. Abigail Adams was seriousness worried about education, because women were out of the education system, and only if they were in a powerful family could study, but only a part of the educational system. Women were included in the education like whom who teach children in home, specially if they were daughters. Abigail advocates for a plenty inclusion of the female gender in the society, and this complete inclusion starts in the freedom to reach the totality of the education possibilities, to be in equal participation and presence than men in the society.

In summary, the main goal of the Abigail Adam letters, was that the war against the slavery and the british domination of the colonies, includes the american women in their objectives of a future free country. If the main goal of the war, was freedom, Adams tried to include the women in that freedom, and in a time of change, change the society were they lived to a new one were every part of the society could be a part of the freedom that this society enjoy. Abigail was not successful in her objectives, and she couldn´t change her husband´s thinking about the role of women in the marriage and the social life. But in the future, she was inspiration to others who challenge the oppression and the law contempt to a collective who is the main sustain of a family system, that creates the social structure around which a new country was built. Despite the fruit of her fight was not gathered in that moment, Abigail Adams was a women that creates inspiration to another women. She was a well positioned person, married with a powerful man and born in a well-off family, but she fights for every women in the american society, like one more. And in her letters she always took care about every women, it does n´t care if they were indigenous, or different parts of the social scale. That attitude made of Abigail Adams a moral reference for the future feminism movement.

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Abigail Adams’ Letters. Remember the Ladies (solo la carta de A. Adams a John Adams). 1776. http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/165adams-rtl.html...