"As the Second Continental Congress drew up and debated the Declaration of Independence through 1776, Abigail Adams began to press the argument in letters to her husband that the creation of a new form of government was an opportunity to make equitable the legal status of women to that of men."
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What did Abigail Adams ask her husband John Adams to include in the Declaration of Independence?
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