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 favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.
1. What does it suggest about the historical circumstances of the 1770s that Abigail Adams confined her claim for women's equality to this confidential exchange with her spouse?
2. Despite her privileged position and persuasive power, and despite her threat to "forment a rebellion," Abigail Adams's plea went largely unheeded in the revoutionary era- as did comparable pleadings to extend the revolutionary principle of equality to blacks. What accounts for this limited application of the ideas of liberty and equality in the midst of a supposedly democratic revolution?
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For #1 I would write. Women were not treating equality as men. If you just ignore them, they will form a rebellion and they will not hold themselves bound by any Laws because the laws doesn't give them a voice or representation.
I don't really understand #2. What does it mean by What accounts for this limited application of the ideas of liberty and equality?
I don't really understand #2. What does it mean by What accounts for this limited application of the ideas of liberty and equality?
In the eyes of white men, women and blacks weren't fully human. They were owned by men. It didn't occur to our founding fathers that women and blacs were as smart, mentally balanced, and mature as men.
can you explain question 2 to me?
What accounts for this limited application of the ideas of liberty and equality?
In the eyes of white men, women and blacks weren't fully human. They were owned by men. It didn't occur to our founding fathers that women and blacs were as smart, mentally balanced, and mature as men.
In the eyes of white men, women and blacks weren't fully human. They were owned by men. It didn't occur to our founding fathers that women and blacs were as smart, mentally balanced, and mature as men.
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