Abigail Adams Struggle For Women's Rights

The Enlightenment was NOT for everyone! The intellectual movement left out main groups of society. These groups were women and African slaves. In many primary sources, that extended and supported this statement, had that MEN had certain rights and a MAN is born free. There were only a few times that the primary sources had “people” or a “person.” Never did any say “women have certain rights,” but there are a few times that states what slaves’ rights are/ what they should be. Many people, or groups, Abigail Adams was a woman that used logic along with what she believed to be. She wrote letters to her husband, that was at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, creating rules for the United States. Mrs. Adams was worried for the rights of women and put what she thought into her letters to her husband. When her husband was creating laws, Abigail Adams wrote “I desire you would remember the ladies (if you create the new laws for independence) and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands.” (Adams, Abigail. Letters from Abigail Adams to John Adams. 1776.) With the great point she has, her husband responded with laughter and wrote back to her “we know better than to repeal our masculine system. John Adams on the other hand, likes the …show more content…
She said, “for the rights of women, my main argument is built on this simple principle, that if she be not prepared by education to become the companion of man, she will stop the progress of knowledge.” (Wollstonecraft, Mary. Vindication of the Rights of Woman. 1792.) Mary Wollstonecraft has a great point and argument! If women aren’t educated, and men are working, who’s going to educate children. Children know basically as much as their mother because of the lack of education of women. If women aren’t getting the same education as men, then they aren’t treated