In 1776 Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John, who was attending the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, asking that he and the other men--who were working on the Declaration of Independence--"Remember the Ladies." John obviously found the humor in this because The Declaration's wording specifies that "all men are created equal." (http://www.geocities.com:0080/Heartland/4678/kate.html). It can be said that those 4 words alone was the fire behind the world's first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in July of 1848. …
