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8. Abigail to John, 31 March 1776

Reply to lunatica (Reply #3)

Sun Jun 12, 2016, 02:12 PM

Jun 2016

I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, 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 and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors ...

Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation ...

Why, then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity? ...

http://www.thelizlibrary.org/suffrage/abigail.htm

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