Abigail Adams was an influential wife, mother, and woman of the new Republic whose dedication provided a strong advocacy for the education of women to allow them to better fulfill their roles as wives and mothers, and counselors of the Republic's new men, and yet not abandoning their roles in the private sector while influencing the public one.
Born Abigail Smith on November 11 1744, in Weymouth, Massachusetts, she was the second child of one of the families of the major family network in Boston's South Shore. Although her family lived well they had no fortune, thus young Abigail learned…
