![]() ![]() Of this I am certain that it is not founded upon that generous and christian principal of doing to others as we would that others should do unto us. I have sometimes been ready to think that the passion for Liberty cannot be Eaquelly Strong in the Breasts of those who have been accustomed to deprive their fellow Creatures of theirs. I am willing to allow the Colony great merrit for having produced a Washington but they have been shamefully duped by a Dunmore. I wish you would ever write me a Letter half as long as I write you and tell me if you may where your Fleet are gone? What sort of Defence Virginia can make against our common Enemy? Whether it is so situated as to make an able Defence? Are not the Gentery Lords and the common people vassals, are they not like the uncivilized Natives Brittain represents us to be? I hope their Riffel Men who have shewen themselves very savage and even Blood thirsty are not a specimen of the Generality of the people. In his reply, John Adams treated this sentiment as a joke, demonstrating the limits of revolutionary liberty. Abigail Adams, in this letter to her husband John Adams, asked her husband to “remember the ladies” in any new laws he may create. The American Revolution invited a reconsideration of all social inequalities. Abigail and John Adams Converse on Women’s Rights, 1776 ![]()
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