This week in class we were assigned to choose a text to read, I chose Abigail Adams’ Letter to John Adams. Abigail Adams writes to her husband, John Adams, urging him not to forget about the nation’s women when fighting for America’s independence from Great Britain. Abigail's purpose is to convince John that women are entitled to the same protected rights as men. Abigail notes that while John is “proclaiming peace and good-will to men, [he] insists upon retaining an absolute power over wives.” Abigail Adams argues that the laws of the new nation should recognize women as something more than property and protect them from the tyrannical and excessive power men hold over them. She makes the same case against men that the Patriots make against