Abigail Adams: Revolutionary Woman

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Mary John Adams, which from our state employees described American the road. Now you go, you dummies.

How could you possibly let their issue with John Adams was not so much the guy, but where he was in life that is because of this detour out to be a teacher and because he had spent most apprenticing law. He'd just gotten started his career and like young lawyers today men as well as women. He didn't have a lot of clients yet and it just wasn't established and so remember from the sound of music where the 16-year-old falls in love.

The 17-year-old boy Julie Andrews sings waiting I or two. That's what her parents were saying, but you know neither of them wanted to wait and it wasn't clear know that the other one way they pushed and pushed and finally dissolves her parents objections to their marriage married in 1764 and settled down for what could've easily been a pretty normal life.

Him off on on the road because you're going working in different courts. Her main response ability for raising the family, but then comes the revolution, he played a big role in the Boston massacre.

He actually was a lawyer for the soldiers fired the shots and so he started writing in support of revolution set. Now Congress in 1774 and that covers only lasted a couple of months back home pretty soon. But then he went off again. The second Domino Congress and was one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence and then in 1778 he left Congress came on very briefly and was sent off to Europe and he didn't come back until 1788, and so my point is there was this seven year.

When they were separated by an ocean. You can see why she would describe it as her widowhood. She could easily have become an actual widow because the first part of that. There was a war on, she was miserable but she got dizzy when she started taking charge of the family finances and doing such a good job making making Adams family wealthy in a way that they would remain altered and sent anyone listening to Prof. Woody Holton tell the story the early story of Abigail Adams and how Abigail came to know John and Mary him when we come back more of this remarkable life story and this remarkable American couple here on our American story. Folks if you love the stories we tell about this great country and especially the stories of America's rich past. Know that all of our stories about American history from ward innovation culture and faith are brought to us by the great folks at Hillsdale College placement. Students study all the things that are beautiful in life and all the things are good in life. If you can get the Hillsdale bills that will come to you with a free and terrific online courses go to Hillsdale.edu to learn more Tory and Johnny went to 10 MG podcast we have such a special episode brought to you by NARA TAC ODT we recorded at radius type event windows hang down. Did you NARA TAC ODT were not apparent 75 mg can help migraine sufferers still set an exciting event. Windows hang out. It's true I had when I took minor TAC ODT and I was present and having an amazing time.

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Electronic visitor verification were someone comes to your home. A lot of it could have been driven by the pandemic and the necessity to build up this infrastructure, but I think it's just clear now that healthcare is mass adopting all types of enterprise mobility solutions as homes need to be turned into like hospitals now. The restless ones is now available on the iHeartRadio app wherever you listen to podcasts presented by T-Mobile for business 5G that's ready right now and we returned to our American stories we been listening to Prof. Woody Holton tell the story of Abigail Adams from his biography of the same name. We learned that although Abigail was not formally educated. He found ways to educate yourself, Abigail and John had married and were beginning their happy life together. Then came the American Revolution returned to Prof. Holton for more of the story. One of the great things about writing about the Adams is set how much of their correspondence survived. We have more than a thousand of their letters back and forth and that's when the ironies of it. If that revolution hadn't happened and he had stayed home as a lawyer. We have hardly any letters if there would've been any need for them.

So it's a it's a pain to us, but it was rough for them but they both had the resilience of many had opportunities to come home a bunch of times and felt like is duty as a citizen required him to stay and she persisted through a lot of that. But I will say we all have our limits and she reached a point in around 1784, when she said okay that's it.

John you been over there for about six years and it's really time to come home and she had a very interesting way of getting him to come home, which was there's a piece of land near their home in Massachusetts.

John had been want to buy for years and she knew he wanted his land and just having come on the market, but it did come on the market while he is gone so she wrote them and said look I can buy this land.

They say splices I can have a safe place, but you have the money right now, but she says I know I can borrow some money for you to buy this land that I'm only gonna do that if you will agree to come researching further I realized who she was can borrow this money from Bible plan if he came home and I was herself because out of all the money that Abigail had made for John during during his absence.

She started sending some of that money aside and calling it her own women under English common law which still prevailed in the United States after became the nation's top law once you get married you can be like Martha Washington, the riches to the richest widow in Virginia until she married George was all George's and that is true of Abigail and John to legally she owned nothing but sheep made so much money for her husband and nothing against John, but she thought that was so unfair that when she basically tried to bribe her husband to come home from Europe subjugates resubmit for she was propping in with what was legally his own money, but which you claim you didn't come home in 1783 for infection joining latter half of 1784 and she didn't buy the land because he didn't like this, but my point is that she was a very devoted wife. He was a devoted husband, but it wasn't like all a bed of roses. They had their battles over what to invest money and whether he should come home or stay and things like that and they were pretty tough negotiators with each other that they didn't think either of them felt like that diminish their affection for each other.

I would call on the perfect couple that is a me that there are couple never disagree but did he had his opinions and she had her stew and is fun to watch them argue about in their letters. The classic conflict between Abigail and John Adams know the exact day. It began. That was March 31, 1776. John is down in Philadelphia as a member of the Continental Congress, and Abigail is back in Massachusetts and the date the time of year is important here. It's March. It's Massachusetts. Finally, you're starting to hear the birds chirp again and see a little bit. Agree on outside your window. It was a time of real hopefulness for her.

She was hopeful that Congress would go ahead and declare independence that she and John both wanted that to happen, but my sister wrote this letter March 31, 1776 saying I wish you guys were good card and and by the way, when you guys sit down to write our new code of laws. I want you to remember the ladies, and specifically what she wanted Congress to do was to protect provide protection for women in the case of abusive husbands. There was very little protection for people who suffer from spousal abuse in the basically no protection for women. One of the rights of a man was to correct his servants and his slaves in his children and his wife and back correct that upbeat correct pronunciation. I mean strike them to punish them for not doing as he directed and so she John never hit Abigail of course.

But there were husbands who did and so she know she fired off a little bit.

She said look at the basically good houses like you don't need this kind of law, but there are other husbands for whom this law should exist and so she really urged to do that is a very common sense requests on her part. She also better to not back holding him a couple times is nothing more than anybody like that. They probably especially guys than to be quoted did have their own words quoted in one of his lines was all men would be tyrants if and when he said he meant it the same sense that Jefferson would write a few minutes later all men are equal. DE met in a minimal torrent actor has over each other, but she sat there back in as all men are males would be tyrants if they could.

And so, so that was part of her morning, but she was clever enough to use his language to say it, and then another thing that he'd been harping on for 10 years and lots of other males, which is no taxation without representation that everybody deserves a vote on requesting that all men deserve about, but she said we women are really in a bad situation here because we don't have any representation in government. That's another reason why she passes law enforcement to our own representative. Having it was still a pretty outrageous demand. Actually, for a woman in 1776 to suggest legislation to her husband and she reinforced in an interesting way to get it. She said if you don't do this. I have half a mind to foment a rebellion I read that letter so many times and discussed other scholars and students, teachers, and I'm convinced that she was kidding she wasn't talking about actually you know when it's working torches and attacking real rebellion that she was kinda kidding around, but we all know about the joke that's not really a joke. I think it was a perfect rhetorical device to threaten a rebellion, but with a little bit about nudge a joking night.

Well, sorry to say that when John wrote back. Joking was on his mind because he wrote back saying that quote I cannot latch at this proposition that we need to be thinking about right.

Legislation and he wrote a male friend of his, saying we may have really opened Pandora's box here. That is, by demanding independence from Britain. We men may have caused ourselves some real problems because women are to demand independence from them in our servants and slaves made demanded payment from in our kids and apprentices may demand independence from us and she was so mad when she got this letter back from him saying I cannot but laugh at what your suggesting here. She wrote a friend of hers female historian actually named Mercy Otis Warren. She wrote Mercy say basic how to strangle the guy because he didn't take my things. Here's an end. By the way Congress was really lighting writing internal legislation doing things like spousal abuse. It was doing with more international affairs that really limits of the day with the state level, but the point is you know I didn't do anything but economy answered it pretty contemptuously, which is really sad but it opened up a conversation that continued where he would say things in letters to her that were sort of pro-American rights as against Britain and she would write back saying yes I agree totally with that but we got a thing about women's rights in relation to men and human listening to Prof. Woody Holton tell the story of Abigail Adams. It's true the declaration and the Constitution ushered in a human rights movement unknown before them and it would include African-Americans, women, and so many other folks to the modern world we have today but without those words by Jefferson well who knows what would've happened. When we come back more of the story of Abigail Adams here on our American story, this is Tori, and Johnny went to 10 MG podcasts we have such a special episode brought to you by near attack ODT we recorded at iHeartRadio type event windows hang down near Tech ODT Renate pants 75 mg can help migraine sufferers still set an exciting event like windows hang out. It's true I had when I took minor Tech ODT and I was present and having an amazing time. A little glimpse of our conversation with some of our closest friends & was brought to you by near Tech ODT my magic pants 75 mg life with migraine attacks can mean missing out on big moments with friends and family, but thankfully near attack ODT Renate pants 75 mg is the only medication that is proven to treat a migraine attack and prevent episodic migraines and adults sound lively events like windows, hang out down have to be next visit DJ TFN the black affect podcast network is sponsored by better help online therapy, life can get overwhelming for all of us for many people it's not easy to open up to someone and discuss our vulnerabilities but not long ago I found myself in a place where I need someone to talk to on a relatively new father with two very young children in the home, and although I always wanted kids.

I waited because I was going to be as stable as possible in my life both mentally and financially.

What I learned is never the right time because life doesn't work that way, and the pressure I felt and feel wanting to be the father I never had is a heavyweight at times to bear. Compound that with the Korean lifestyle that goes with my career I find myself in dual worlds that often don't mesh nothing comes easy and every day is a work in progress, but as long as you're working on yourself, you're moving in the right direction better help us secure online therapy that offers videophone and even live chat sessions with a licensed professional therapist when you sign up you can filter results by age and gender, cultural background and expertise better help strides to meet their clients where they need them.

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HP LP.com/black affect hi, I'm Jonathan Strickland post of the restless ones join me as I sit down for in-depth discussions with the leaders at the intersection of technology and business leaders like Robert Marcus, founder of social mobile workforces are being mobilized now and it's clear that everyone needs a secure connected device whether a vaccine administration machine remote patient monitoring with a set of your house. Electronic visitor verification were someone comes to your home. A lot of it could have been driven by the pandemic and the necessity to build up this infrastructure, but I think it's just clear now that healthcare is mass adopting all types of enterprise mobility solutions as homes need to be turned into like hospitals now. The restless ones is now available on the iHeartRadio app wherever you listen to podcast presented by T-Mobile for business 5G that's ready right now and we continue with our American stories we been diving into the story of First Lady Abigail Adams the second First Lady Prof. Woody Holton of the University of South Carolina has been telling the story beautiful from his biography entitled Abigail Adams go to Amazon.com, the usual suspects to buy we left off. After John Adams contemptuous reply to his wife's wish that in the founding fathers writing the Constitution. They remember the ladies. This opened up a door for Abigail to convince John that American rights, women's rights to back to Prof. Holton after that exchange of August 1776. He I should tell you use one of these guys are still a lot of them who are friends of mine is from New England and he thought New England is the home of the universe the day of the Ivy League schools are the only school he was like that and he wrote her saying you really got us or arguing with schools because I'm down here Philadelphia and they got this thing other. They have their own cost is nowhere near as good as ours and so he says it's going to be up to New England to create the heroes and philosophers and states those three that's what the nation's heroes, philosophers and states as your back saying yeah yeah I think we got the best colleges appear by if you really want heroes, philosophers and statesmen you need educated women because the person who most decides whether a child is good enough to get into college and has the motivation to work hard to draw off one of these colleges and has the basic background is mother Betty saying if you want males to be educated yet educate women to not for their own sake and I think she wanted women to be educated but later evidence that she did she know that wasn't gonna work on him, but she shook her argument was, even if only all you care about is having educated men need educated women because they're the mom started out as a couple examples and give you a bunch more but they went back and forth on on women's rights are always sort of making the point that women's rights are unpatriotic that that is completely consistent with with him saying all men are created equal. There's nothing she never used the phrase that you first see Seneca Falls declaration of 1948 in all men and women are critical. That's basically the argument you Making to him.

Women made an and Abby actually said this in a letter that she wrote John and Jean submitted to they made huge sacrifices in the Revolutionary war and she actually argued greater sacrifices than the men because they gave up their loved ones course at a much greater rate than men did. And we can argue about who made greater sacrifice but but is certainly true that when made a huge sacrifice would like talk about in her case she was just so long gone. She is loved and that much.

But also I think think there was really no one of his intellectual caliber. She did meet George Washington. Lots of other luminaries while he was gone, but nobody that she could have the kind of hard-hitting discussion of literature on faucets and workers.

She eventually became a great financial managers, but it was a huge hassle's message is running the farm, but the greatest sacrifice of all was the dying no one in her immediate world died of shop and it's stunning to recall that the number of American soldiers who died on the battlefield is a little over 7007 years of war. That's fewer than God in three days at Gettysburg, but where the real die was from disease that runs the numbers of maybe 30,000 American men died during the war.

So anyway she lost during the war. John's brother is a good friend of hers as well very early in the war there was a dysentery epidemic, but that same epidemic also spread in the civilian population.

And worst of all, that that October 1775 epidemic killed her mother because her kids had also gotten sick with dysentery.

One of them nearly died and her mother came over every day is grandmothers will to help take care of the kids. Her mother picked up the stairs and died. Abigail was just absolutely devastated and you know she sought comfort in the Psalms and in Joe Job offers any comfort she she got what she could say John really rose to the occasion and wrote her beautiful letters trying to console her. But but how could he can select because her mother. Aside from John was her best friend and so that we think about all the sacrifice that been made in terms of food shortages and the work they did shop selling shirts for the soldiers. There was a lot of that and a lot of women. I have us registered and running thesis about all the women who traveled with the Army and those women saved lives just by keeping the soldiers shirts clean because of dirty shirt is of course lice shirt and white typist in typhus kills you.

After George Washington ordered that the entire company Army inoculatedagainst smallpox and he saved thousands of lives logical thing Boston won the war by immunizing soldiers against small but my point is to do things after smallpox is off the table for the soldiers. The biggest killer was typhus and typhus computers shirt and it's the women who watch the shirts and reduce the threat of typhus they could use a lot more a lot more lives if they had them and yet the women were not considered valuable enough to be inoculated against smallpox with expensive operation states and so many women did spot… I've smallpox and they didn't finally get mass inoculated until the end of the war. We have this estimate that about something like 30,000 soldiers died in that war and they haven't even bothered.

No one has bothered to calculate the number of women who died of disease one. I think if you asked her what was her single biggest sacrifice giraffe task are private because it's a private matter, but she say her single thing that she suffered the most was not just that she had a child stillborn submitting 77 but that her husband wasn't there with her that even during the pregnancy. She was saying. John saying no. Even a lot of the creation that is animals have, there's their mate with during the pregnancy and I don't because you're off the Congress so she was already feeling distressed about having their while she's pregnant and even more so wonder when the child and in fact the saddest thing I think she ever did to herself was.

She believed that the stress of anatomy that she was going through going through that painful last month of pregnancy without her husband present, and anxious last month because mom some off and on pregnancy executive midwives better than me well enough to just kind of let nature take its course. But Moncton often died in childbirth but the babies off the bits she was anxious about him happen and here's what she did to herself after this that she believes that she had killed his throw her anxiety and we know it's not true. Someone else examine the body saw something about the child clearly that she believed that she had done that herself and what a sad sad thought and you been listening to Prof. Woody Houghton told the story of Abigail Adams her loneliness, her grief and not having a husband at her side and then losing a baby and blaming herself for the loss.

When we come back more of this remarkable story of America's second First Lady Abigail Adams here on our American story, this is Tori, and Jenny went to 10 MG podcasts we have such a special episode brought to you by near attack ODT we recorded at iHeartRadio type event windows hanging down near attack ODT were not apparent 75 mg can help migraine sufferers still set an exciting event like Wingo tango strip I had when I took minor attack ODT and I was present and having an amazing time. A little glimpse of our conversation with some of our closest friends & was brought to you by near attack ODT my magic pants 75 mg life with migraine attacks can mean missing out on big moments with friends and family, but thankfully near attack ODT were magic pants 75 mg is the only medication that is proven to treat a migraine attack and prevent episodic migraines and adults sound lively events like Wingo tango town have to be next visit DJ TFN the black affect podcast network is sponsored by better help online therapy, life can get overwhelming for all of us for many people it's not easy to open up to someone and discuss our vulnerabilities but not long ago I found myself in a place where I need someone to talk to on a relatively new father with two very young children in the home, and although I always wanted kids. I waited because I was going to be as stable as possible in my life both mentally and financially.

What I learned is never the right time because life doesn't work that way, and the pressure I felt and feel wanting to be the father I never had is a heavyweight at times to bear. Compound that with the career lifestyle that goes with my career I find myself in dual worlds that often don't mesh nothing comes easy and every day is a work in progress, but as long as you're working on yourself, you're moving in the right direction better help us secure online therapy that offers videophone and even live chat sessions with a licensed professional therapist when you sign up you can filter results by age and gender, cultural background and expertise better help strides to meet their clients where they need them. For those not ready for traditional therapy. There are support groups available to join for community therapy can be done from anywhere you can also switch therapists as much as you want the black affect podcast network is sponsored by better help online therapy visit better help.com/black affect and join over 2 million people who have taken charge of their mental health. With the help of an experienced better help therapist our listeners get 10% off their first month of online therapy@betterhelp.com/black affect that's better. HP LP.com/black affect hi, I'm Jonathan Strickland post of the restless ones join me as I sit down for in-depth discussions with the leaders at the intersection of technology and business leaders like Robert Marcus, founder of social mobile workforces are being mobilized now and it's clear that everyone needs a secure connected device whether a vaccine administration machine remote patient monitoring with a set of your house. Electronic visitor verification were someone comes to your home. A lot of it could have been driven by the pandemic and the necessity to build up this infrastructure, but I think it's just clear now that healthcare is mass adopting all types of enterprise mobility solutions as homes need to be turned into like hospitals now. The restless ones is now available on the iHeartRadio app wherever you listen to podcasts presented by T-Mobile for business 5G that's ready right now and we returned to our American stories into the story of Abigail Adams was told by Prof. Woody Houghton we left off of him telling us of the great sacrifices that the women of the revolution made one of the greatest tragedies from the war was Abigail delivering a stillborn baby without the support of her husband, John, back to Prof. Holton and what Abigail Adams was like as a mother, one of my favorite things, working on my book about Abigail was writing about her as a mother because I found myself quite ambivalent about what I want her as my mom must have my own mother and I don't think I would trader for Abigail because she was a terrific mom. In some ways and not so terrific in others. She only had one daughter to adulthood her daughter Nabby. They were very close, but I have a couple grievances about her raising of Nabby.

There's no evidence of her ever try would have a ton of letters between them, but we do have letters there are not that we have letters that she ever tried to instill any of her color proto-feminism. I don't send an hereafter limited the right to vote United is asking too much for her to be living in the 19th century. She will donate anyway some color. Proto-feminist, but she never really surpassed that underdog to pass along a lot of her nieces, but never to her own daughter and I think it's because she's our daughter is not that strong still do find it, she just find herself a man and settle down and get to work doing all the that wives do seem to see as much potential in her daughter as her mother had obviously seen her also. I think Dr. John Quincy was 10 and went over to join John to Becker right retired from sent father and son sailed back together and send a and Abigail wrote John Quincy before she gotten word that they safely arrived in Europe arrived in Europe and across the ocean middle of the war she writes him saying I want to be good boy and she said rather that ship that you traveled on sank in the ocean and that you should be a graceless child got such a cruel cruel thing to write to your 10-year-old when you know whether his ship had sunk or not, so she could please give me a little tough. That's partly 18th-century child raising limitations and it makes me really like giant of this letter is not like his fondness for monarchy would be would be at the top of the list anyway pretty arrogant guy but I mentioned that Abigail started around 1781.

Setting aside some of the family fortune and just thinking of it as her own, which got sick.she was dying and wrote her will to impose writer will because her husband was still alive. She did it anyway and then left that in her papers and she died two years later and John would have been perfectly within his rights under the common law prevailing at the time in taking that will that she wrote and just throwing it in the fire because it had no legal standing, but what he actually did was carry out her will to letter and by doing that he made it his actions and that made it legal to people she wanted a property to got the property they got clear title to the property because John had basically endorsed it by going along with it and I think man what a long road. He had traveled from contemptuously laughing all her claim of her desire. Remember the ladies in 1776 to 42 years later in 1818, finding her will and caring about and then that raises the question of well booted she leave all this money to she had bank stock canal stock all all this other grant valuable property to give it. By 1860 material that will one of her sons was dead but she had these other two were not in great financial statement she had nephews who were even worse financial shape. The dead son had left a bunch of left left her a bunch of mail grandchildren who were really bad financial straits sheet status you know a lot of guys who really needed and she left them all. Nothing in her will. Every single thing she left until when she left it to her nieces and her female grandchildren and to her female servant you could call that a feminist act recognizing that women are more financially dependent infinitely more financially dependent than men and wanting to make give them some shot at some kind of economic dependence that many women had as much education she did not many women were as polar as her. I never really thought that mystery is what made her so much older than others. I did find an enzyme really say self-confident as well but couple sources of this artist.

It makes you more Every time I read another book. I am a little more proud of myself and I think most people are that way and she she was well read and that just gives you a certain amount of self-confidence and soak so I think part of her confidence came from being well read, and I also think there's something about PK's preachers kids where you're just used to being sitting in the front of the church and be leaders Fridays at Baptist minister's kids are always the ones no one else will sign up for the Christmas play is give have to do it so they just get used to being in front of the congregation and took her a while to have a legacy because so much of what she did, necessarily she did in private.

She wrote these wonderful letters to her nieces and later to her granddaughters, inspiring them to get an education, specifically encouraging them to learn science and math and she did push women to do that so she done all this, but she done it quietly in private letters.

Now after she died. Her grandson, Charles Francis Adams later as fathers and grandfathers on the American ambassador to England because Transcend published a bunch of mothers and fathers letters that are specifically focused on on her intimate letters of John Adams and yet what today, by far, has become her most famous letter to go remember the ladies letter was not in and I think he was just trying to be service confident service cafeteria food that is be noncontroversial just nice letters were she supporting her husband stand by your Man kind of letters and not the cheeky ones where she saying that's an imperative verb. Remember the ladies, or if you want to have educated men have to have educated mothers, which means educated girls he'd taken out all the all what I would call the good stuff and so it's really late in the 19th century that people are women's rights advocates rediscovered her and those other letters of her started to be published and I think she is a terrific icon from the revolution. You know, we know now that there were hundreds of documentable women heroes and revolutionattended to look at the first ladies on my proximal school but she burned all of her George's letters which are kind of perfunctory survive on a lot of documentation about Washington. Martha Jefferson is out of the picture very early on those letters were Jefferson burn those letter lot burning of letters in those days you didn't need a paper shredder like the threes always Adams letter survived was at the Adams family remained wealthy all through the 19th century until the 1930s when they finally gave their house. The national give the federal government, which is wonderfully now that's a tribute to her to because the main reason that that family stayed wealthy. John was a great politician but he just not interested in making money and she was in so the biggest indicator that your family papers order to survive are is if your family holds onto his house and thereupon just looking at the house burned down, but it was also kept that house all those years and that was that was a factor well and that was something that she really played a crucial role in creating and a special thanks to faith for the editing and to Robbie for the production and a special thanks to Prof. Woody Holton began his book is Abigail Adams go to Amazon and the usual suspects and pick it up and is always all our history stories are brought to us by the great folks at Hillsdale College when you can learn about American history and so much more to Hillsdale.edu.

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