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Revolutionary Responses
2013
Overview
Abigail Adams was exhausted by the efforts she had made to support the Revolution and her new government when she wrote to her husband, John, early in the summer of 1782. Interspersing neighborhood news with her opinions on diplomatic issues, she famously observed with some resignation that “Patriotism in the female Sex is the most disinterested of all virtues.”¹ William Russell and Lord Kames might doubt the capacity of women to be patriotic, but Abigail Adams did not. Thus, her comment is important precisely because it suggests the contested nature of women’s political capabilities and participation on both sides of
