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Abigail Adams, an American woman, Charles W. Akers ; edited by Oscar Handlin

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-200) and index

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Abigail Adams, an American woman

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Charles W. Akers ; edited by Oscar Handlin

The Library of American biography

Abigail Adams in her life exemplified what it meant to be a woman, an American, and a revolutionary of the transitional period between colonial status and independence. Her aspirations were not precisely the same as those either of her seventeenth-century ancestors or of nineteenth- and twentieth-century descendants. The role she defined for herself as a woman was that of a wife, but a role entirely the equal of her husband's -- not the same but equal. - Editor's prefaceA biography of the unschooled daughter of a country minister who was the wife of the second President of the United States and the mother of the sixth President

Editor's preface -- "You may take me" : 1744-1764 -- "An important trust" : 1764-1774 -- "Remember the ladies" : 1774-1776" -- "Bereft of my better half" : 1776-1778 -- "Patriotism in the female sex" : 1778-1784 -- "The Amaizing difference" : 1784-1785 -- "I will not strike my colours" : 1785-1788 -- "In their proper sphere" : 1788-1792 -- "Tellegraph of the mind" : 1792-1797 -- "Fellow labourer" : 1797-1798 -- "What I cannot remedy" : 1798-1801 -- "The mother of such a son" : 1801-1818 -- A note on the sources