Did you know that John Adams’ wife regularly asked her husband to include women in his political writings as the United states was being formed?

During 1775 and 1776, Abigail Adams repeatedly wrote to her husband about the need for women to be included in the Declaration of Independence. She was the wife of John Adams who later became the second president of the United States. John and Abigail were famous for writing long letters to each other while John was away on government business. While her husband John was working on the Declaration of Independence, she wrote to remind him that women “will not hold ourselves bound by laws which we have no voice.”

Even though much of her voice was not physically added to the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution, she was highly influential in trying to gain rights for women long before Women’s Suffrage.

Read more of her letters in The Letters of John and Abigail Adams