Abigail Adams

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The American Revolution's emphasis on liberty influenced women such as Abigail Adams during the conflict, and women continued to associate liberty with expanded rights after the war.] Some well-educated women in the United States read English writer Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women published in England and in the United States in 179 (Berkin 12) . In that manifesto, Wollstonecraft argued that young men and women should receive the same kind of education. She objected to a special female curriculum that exclusively emphasized skills such as needlepoint and musical accomplishments; this “false system of education,” she charged, left ...