Letter To Husband John Adams

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I wish that whomever finds this letter will read it and share it with your people. This letter, I hope, gives you insight into these troubled times we’re living in. As a women, gender inequality has been brought to my attention many a time. In an earlier letter that I wrote to my husband John Adams, I stated “...by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies.” I talked about this in my letter because in that time I was one of the only women who was speaking up about my own rights. I have continued to bring this issue to my husband's attention because the women don’t have a voice from the king. At the beginning of the Revolution, women and people of color weren’t

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