Don't Know Much About Suffrage

"You've come a long way baby."

It was 233 years ago that the brilliant Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John, then working in Philadelphia on independence.

Remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable 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 we will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.

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Published on August 26, 2009 13:00
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