“I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in the province; it
always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me to fight our-
selves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those
who have as good a right to freedom as we have.”—Letter to John
Adams, September 1774
and Entrepreneur
November 11, 1744–October 28, 1818
Until Barbara Bush, ABIGAIL ADAMS was the only woman to be a wife and a mother to a President of the United States. She was the wife of the second President John Adams (1797–1801) and the mother of the sixth John Quincy Adams (1825–1829). She did not live long enough to see her son inaugurated but she did stand with him, aged not quite eight years old, on a hilltop near their home on June 17, 1775 watching the British lose a thousand men as they won a Pyrrhic victory at the Battle of Bunker Hill. For every eight or more dead Redcoats there was only one dead patriot. The experience was a valuable lesson for
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Publication information:
Book title: Ladies for Liberty: Women Who Made a Difference in American History.
Contributors: John Blundell - Author.
Publisher: Algora.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2011.
Page number: 25.
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