In the beginning of this assignment, I decided to focus on what women thought of the American Revolution and freedom itself and how they believe it related to them. With these thoughts in mind, I decided to search through the North American Women’s Letter and Diaries database. First, I began by searching the phrase "war and freedom" but I came upon no result, then I searched the terms "war and free", which also had no results. After coming upon no results twice, I decided to search one word terms instead. "Revolution", "war," "freedom" and "free" were the terms I searched the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth time respectively. The time period for all these searches were from 1773 to 1783. During my research I read through eleven documents until I found a letter written by Abigail Smith Adams for her
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In this letter by Abigail Smith Adams, she writes her opinions about the evacuation of Boston, the government, liberty and a woman’s lack of freedom (Adams). Adams asserts that after the Boston evacuation, nothing was done to protect Boston or its ports from future invasion. This reveals that some colonist did not feel satisfied with how things were being handled during the American Revolution even if they were for Independence. Also that just because the Declaration of Independence had yet to be written, it did not mean that the colonist and the British had not already begun to act against each other in battle-like manner. She then moves on to the topic of liberty by writing that people can let a King fall and continue being people, but a King can no longer continue being King if he lets his people slip (Adams). This idea gives the insight that the colonist believed the King of England let them slip and as result he could no longer continue being their King and so, it is justified to seek freedom from his rule. She continues mentioning freedom as she
In this letter by Abigail Smith Adams, she writes her opinions about the evacuation of Boston, the government, liberty and a woman’s lack of freedom (Adams). Adams asserts that after the Boston evacuation, nothing was done to protect Boston or its ports from future invasion. This reveals that some colonist did not feel satisfied with how things were being handled during the American Revolution even if they were for Independence. Also that just because the Declaration of Independence had yet to be written, it did not mean that the colonist and the British had not already begun to act against each other in battle-like manner. She then moves on to the topic of liberty by writing that people can let a King fall and continue being people, but a King can no longer continue being King if he lets his people slip (Adams). This idea gives the insight that the colonist believed the King of England let them slip and as result he could no longer continue being their King and so, it is justified to seek freedom from his rule. She continues mentioning freedom as she